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1 online resource (vi, 325 pages) : illustrations |
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OldControl:muse9780814789674. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Classical Hollywood and the filmic writing of interracial history, 1931-1939 / J.E. Smyth -- Mixed race frontiers: border westerns and the limits of "America" / Camilla Fojas -- Mixedfolks.com: "ethnic ambiguity," celebrity outing, and the Internet / Lisa Nakamura -- Catching up with history: Night of the quarter moon, the Rhinelander case, and interracial marriage in 1959 / Heidi Ardizzone -- A window into a life uncloseted: "spice boy" imaginings in new queer cinema / Robb Hernandez -- The biracial subject as passive receptacle for Japanese American memory in Come see the paradise / Kent A. Ono -- Race mixing and the fantastic: lineages of identity and genre in contemporary Hollywood / Adam Knee -- Virtual race: the racially ambiguous action hero in The matrix and Pitch Black / Jane Park -- From blaxploitation to mixploitation: male leads and changing mixed race identities / Gregory T. Carter -- Detecting difference in Devil in a blue dress: the mulatta figure, noir, and the cinematic reification of race / Aisha D. Bastiaans -- Mixed race in Latinowood: Latino stardom and ethnic ambiguity in the era of Dark angels / Mary Beltrán -- Mixed race on the Disney Channel: from Johnny Tsunami through Lizzie McGuire and ending with The cheetah girls / Angharad N. Valdivia -- The matrix trilogy, Keanu Reeves, and multiraciality at the end of time / LeiLani Nishime. |
| Summary |
A Kansas City Star 2008 Notable Book. Since the early days of Hollywood film, portrayals of interracial romance and of individuals of mixed racial and ethnic heritage have served to highlight and challenge fault lines within Hollywood and the nation's racial categories and borders. Mixed Race Hollywood is a pioneering compilation of essays on mixed-race romance, individuals, families, and stars in U.S. film and media culture. Situated at the cutting-edge juncture of ethnic studies and media studies, this collection addresses early mixed-race film characters, Blaxploitation, mixed race in child. |
| Language |
English. |
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Racially mixed people in motion pictures.
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Personnes métissées au cinéma.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Racially mixed people in motion pictures
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Electronic books.
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Fojas, Camilla, 1971-
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Beltrán, Mary C.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mixed race Hollywood. New York : New York University Press, ©2008 9781479830039 (DLC) 2008010949 (OCoLC)182529015 |
| ISBN |
9781479830039 (electronic bk.) |
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9780814789674 (electronic bk.) |
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0814789676 (electronic bk.) |
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9781479830558 (electronic bk.) |
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1479830550 (electronic bk.) |
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1479830038 (electronic bk.) |
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9780814799895 (pb ; alk. paper) |
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0814799892 (pb ; alk. paper) |
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9780814799888 (cl ; alk. paper) |
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0814799884 (cl ; alk. paper) |
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AU@ 000076174744 |
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