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Autore: | Woods Peiró Eva |
Titolo: | White Gypsies [[electronic resource] ] : race and stardom in Spanish musicals / / Eva Woods Peiró |
Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2012 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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 | |
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.: | 9910808379903321 |
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