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Dance and the Hollywood Latina : Race, Sex and Stardom.

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Dance and the Hollywood Latina asks why every Latina star in Hollywood history began as a dancer or danced onscreen. Introducing the concepts of "inbetween-ness" and "racial mobility" to further illuminate how racialized sexuality and the dancing female body operate in film, this...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Ovalle, Priscilla Peña
Other Authors: Ovalle, Priscilla Pena
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Series:Latinidad.
Subjects:
Hispanic Americans in motion pictures.
Hispanic Americans in the motion picture industry.
Hispanic American motion picture actors and actresses.
Dance in motion pictures, television, etc. > United States.
Race in motion pictures.
Sex in motion pictures.
Dance in motion pictures, television, etc.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; 1. Mobilizing the Latina Myth; 2. Dolores Del Rio Dances across the Imperial Color Line; 3. Carmen Miranda Shakes It for the Nation; 4. Rita Hayworth and the Cosmetic Borders of Race; 5. Rita Moreno, the Critically Acclaimed "All-Round Ethnic"; 6. Jennifer Lopez, Racial Mobility, and the New Urban/Latina Commodity; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

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