White Gypsies [[electronic resource] ] : race and stardom in Spanish musicals / / Eva Woods Peiró

• Autore: Woods Peiró Eva
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/6552
• Soggetto topico: Romanies in motion pictures; Musical films - Spain - History and criticism; Race in motion pictures; Ethnicity in motion pictures; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures; Romanies - Spain - Andalusia
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : modernity, race, and visibility -- Time, racial otherness, and digressions in silent films of the 1920s -- Female spectacle in the display case of the roaring Twenties -- Racing for modernity : from black jazz to white Gypsy folklore -- The gypsy "problem" : law and spatial assimilation -- The Spanish solution : the folklorica and the fuehrer -- Recycling folkloricas : a queer Spain.
• Sommario/riassunto: Little has been written about the Spanish film musical, a genre usually associated with the early Franco dictatorship and dismissed by critics as reactionary, escapist fare. A timely and valuable corrective, White Gypsies shows how the Spanish folkloric musical films of the 1940's and '50's are inextricably tied to anxious concerns about race-especially, but not only, Gypsiness. Focusing on the processes of identity formation in twentieth-century Spain-with multifaceted readings of the cinematic construction of class, gender, and sexuality-Eva Woods Peiró explores how these popular films allowed
• Titolo autorizzato: White Gypsies
• ISBN: 1-4529-4588-8; 0-8166-7949-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461211003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II