Off-white Hollywood : American culture and ethnic female stardom / [print]
Diane Negra.
- London ; New York : Routledge, (c)2001.
- x, 221 pages.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents: Hollywood film and the narrativization of ethnic femininity ; -- The wearing of the green : Irishness as a promotion discourse in the career of Colleen Moore ; -- Immigrant stardom in imperial America : Pola Negri and the problem of typology ; -- Sonja Henie in Hollywood : whiteness, athleticism, and Americanization ; -- Ethnicity and the interventionist imagination : domesticity, exoticism, and scandal in the persona of Hedy Lamarr ; -- Marisa Tomei and the fantasy of ethnicity ; -- Stardom, corporeality, and ethnic indeterminancy : Cher's disrupted/disruptive body.
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Actresses--United States--Biography. European Americans--Ethnic identity. Minorities in motion pictures. Women in motion pictures.