Off-White Hollywood : American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom

Off-White Hollywood investigates how the 'ethnicity' of white European-American actresses has played a key role in the mythology of American identity and nation building. Negra focuses on key stars of the silent - Colleen Moore and Pola Negri - classical - Sonja Henie and Hedy Lamarr - and post-classical eras - Marisa Tomei and Cher - to demonstrate how each star illuminates aspects of ethnicity, gender, consumerism, and class at work in American culture. Jon Stratton An undoubtedly important book. With its analysis of the historical transformation in the cultural understanding of gender and ethnicity in film, Off-White Hollywood fills a gap in both whiteness studies and cinema studies. Negra is to be congratulated! 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. This work investigates how the ethnicity of white European-American actresses has played a key role in the mythology of American identity and nation-building