Negra, Diane, 1966-,

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.


Electronic books.

PN.P965.O349 2001