4 Yellowface, Minstrelsy, and Hollywood Happy Endings

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1. HOLLYWOOD FORMULAS
5. 1 Daydreams of Society 21
6. 2 The Death of Lon Chaney 39
7. 3 MGM’s Sleeping Lion 58
8. 4 Yellowface, Minstrelsy, and Hollywood Happy Endings 84
9. Part 2. GENRE AND RACE IN CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD
10. 5 “A Queer, Strangled Look” 105
11. 6 By Herself 122
12. 7 Disruptive Mother-Daughter Relationships 141
13. 8 The Egotistical Sublime 159
14. Part 3. RACE AND ETHNICITY IN POST–WORLD WAR II HOLLYWOOD
15. 9 Women and Class Mobility in Classical Hollywood’s Immigrant Dramas 179
16. 10 Hawai‘i Statehood, Indigeneity, and Go for Broke! (1951) 195
17. 11 Savage Whiteness 214
18. 12 Rita Moreno’s Hair 231
19. Part 4. INTERSECTIONALITY, HOLLYWOOD, AND CONTEMPORARY POPULAR CULTURE
20. 13 “Everything Glee in ‘America’ ” 249
21. 14 Hip-Hop “Hearts” Ballet 266
22. 15 Fakin’ da Funk (1997) and Gook (2017) 283
23. 16 “Let Us Roam the Night Together” 301
24. Acknowledgments 319
25. Bibliography 321
26. Notes on Contributors 337
27. Index 341