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Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity
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Edited by:
Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett
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With contributions by:
Ruth Mayer
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English
Published/Copyright:
2020
About this book
Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection of aesthetics and ideology and its productive tensions. This collection of essays asks to what degree can a close critical analysis of films, that is, reading them against their own ideological grain, reveal contradictions and tensions in Hollywood’s task of erecting normative cultural standards? How do some films perhaps knowingly undermine their inherent ideology by opening a field of conflicting and competing intersecting identities? The challenge set out in this volume is to revisit well-known films in search for a narrative not exclusively constituted by the Hollywood formula and to answer the questions: What lies beyond the frame? What elements contradict a film’s sustained illusion of a normative world? Where do films betray their own ideology and most importantly what intersectional spaces of identity do they reveal or conceal?
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DELIA MALIA CAPAROSO KONZETT is a professor of English, cinema, and women’s studies at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. She is the author of Ethnic Modernisms and Hollywood’s Hawaii: Race, Nation, and War. She has published in numerous critical journals on film, focusing on race, imperialism, and aesthetics. Her present work discusses race in Hollywood and its representation in mass culture.
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"Konzett deserves thanks for curating another must-have book on cinema studies. Highly recommended."
— Choice"This is a timely collection - forthright, expansive, and right up to date. Commonly situated at the margins of discussions of race and identity, intersectionality here is placed at the center, crucial to understanding Hollywood's uneven engagement with race, social justice, and ethics. These rigorous and generous readings of key moments across cinema history reveal Hollywood encountering and marking more fluid senses of identity than usually credited to popular film. In all this book shows how, in bell hooks's terms, Hollywood can 'make culture' in problematic, revealing, and surprisingly anticipatory ways."
— Jeffrey Geiger, author of American Documentary Film: Projecting the Nation"Those interested in identity politics and representation in film and media would find this helpful."
— Communication Booknotes Quarterly"Wide ranging and critically deep, Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity addresses the persistence of race in Hollywood film with considerable implications for the intersection of racism, misogyny, and identity we see today on big and small screens alike."
— Daniel Bernardi, editor of Race in American Film: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation"Those interested in identity politics and representation in film and media would find this helpful."
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Introduction
1 - Part 1. HOLLYWOOD FORMULAS
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1 Daydreams of Society
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2 The Death of Lon Chaney
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3 MGM’s Sleeping Lion
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4 Yellowface, Minstrelsy, and Hollywood Happy Endings
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5 “A Queer, Strangled Look”
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6 By Herself
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7 Disruptive Mother-Daughter Relationships
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8 The Egotistical Sublime
159 - Part 3. RACE AND ETHNICITY IN POST–WORLD WAR II HOLLYWOOD
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9 Women and Class Mobility in Classical Hollywood’s Immigrant Dramas
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10 Hawai‘i Statehood, Indigeneity, and Go for Broke! (1951)
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11 Savage Whiteness
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12 Rita Moreno’s Hair
231 - Part 4. INTERSECTIONALITY, HOLLYWOOD, AND CONTEMPORARY POPULAR CULTURE
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13 “Everything Glee in ‘America’ ”
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14 Hip-Hop “Hearts” Ballet
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15 Fakin’ da Funk (1997) and Gook (2017)
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16 “Let Us Roam the Night Together”
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Acknowledgments
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Bibliography
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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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October 11, 2022
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Keywords for this book
Hollywood; race; identity; intersectionality; ethnicity; gender; sexuality; nationality; cinema; movies; film; camera; video; aesthetics; ideology; film analysis; United States cinema; American cinema; Hollywood formula; representation; race and ethnic studies; race studies; ethnic studies; american studies; united states culture; culture; pop culture; popular culture; cinema studies; film studies; films; media studies; film industry; movie industry; communications; rutgers; rutgers university press; rutgers university; performing arts; film and video; social science; social classes; discrimination; race relations; gender studies; class; social class; class studies; Lon Chaney; masculinity; MGM; The Gorgeous Hussy; Minstrelsy; Yellowface; The Black Camel; Charlie Chan in Egypt; Charlie Chan at the Olympics; The Ox-Bow Incident; african american studies; black studies; Imitation of Life; Stella Dallas; film noir; immigrant; immigration; whiteness; The Young Savages; Rita Moreno; Go for Broke!; Glee; West Side Story; hip hop; Step Up; Fakin da Funk; Gook; Asian American hood; history of cinema; race and media; history of film; Moonlight; Tongues United; asian identity; black identity
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
