Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness

by Bernardi, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780816632398
• ISBN10: 0816632391
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Race and the Hollywood Style	xiii
Daniel Bernardi
PART I. CLASS
``What You Are ... I Wouldn't Eat'': Ethnicity, Whiteness, and Performing ``the Jew'' in Hollywood's Golden Age	3	(28)
Nicholas Sammond
Chandra Mukerji
From Second String to Solo Star: Classic Hollywood and the Black Athlete	31	(21)
Aaron Baker
Dark City: White Flight and the Urban Science Fiction Film in Postwar America	52	(20)
Eric Avila
``They Worship Money and Prejudice'': The Certainties of Class and the Uncertainties of Race in Son of the Gods	72	(23)
Gina Marchetti
PART II. GENDER
``The Loveliest and Purest of God's Creatures'': The Three Faces of Eve and the Crisis of Southern Womanhood	95	(16)
Allison Graham
The Redskin and The Paleface: Comedy on the Frontier	111	(28)
Karen Wallace
Dolores del Rio, Uncomfortably Real: The Economics of Race in Hollywood's Latin American Musicals	139	(18)
Joanne Hershfield
Humanizing the Beast: King Kong and the Representation of Black Male Sexuality	157	(21)
Thomas E. Wartenberg
Commodity, Tragedy, Desire: Female Sexuality and Blackness in the Iconography of Dorothy Dandridge	178	(32)
Marguerite H. Rippy
Orientalism Abroad: Hong Kong Readings of The World of Suzie Wong	210	(35)
Gary W. McDonogh
Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong
PART III. WAR
Indianism? Classical Hollywood's Representation of Native Americans	245	(18)
Roberta E. Pearson
Sincere Fictions of the White Self in the American Cinema: The Divided White Self in Civil War Films	263	(18)
Hernan Vera
Andrew Gordon
Creatures of Good and Evil: Caucasian Portrayals of the Chinese and Japanese during World War II	281	(20)
Karla Rae Fuller
December 7th: Race and Nation in Wartime Documentary	301	(38)
Geoffrey M. White
Jane Yi
``Coward, Take My Coward's Hand'': Racism, Ableism, and the Veteran Problem in Home of the Brave and Bright Victory	339	(20)
Martin F. Norden
PART IV. INDUSTRY
The Demands of Authenticity: Addison Durland and Hollywood's Latin Images during World War II	359	(27)
Brian O'Neil
Star Dances: African-American Constructions of Stardom, 1925--1960	386	(29)
Arthur Knight
Listening to Race: Voice, Mixing, and Technological ``Miscegenation'' in Early Sound Film	415	(27)
Sarah Madsen Hardy
Kelly Thomas
``Extremely Dangerous Material'': Hollywood and the ``Ballad of Frankie and Johnnie''	442	(25)
Peter Stanfield
Select Bibliography	467	(16)
Beretta E. Smith-Shomade
Contributors	483	(6)
Index	489