White Gypsies : Race and Stardom in Spanish Musicals /

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Little has been written about the Spanish film musical, a genre usually associated with the early Franco dictatorship and dismissed by critics as reactionary, escapist fare. This book shows how the Spanish folkloric musical films of the 1940s and 1950s are inextricably tied to anxious concerns about...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woods Peiró, Eva
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures.
Romanies in motion pictures.
Romanies.
Race in motion pictures.
Musical films.
Ethnicity in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
ART > Film & Video.
Tsiganes > Espagne > Andalousie.
Stereotypes au cinema.
Ethnicite au cinema.
Race au cinema.
Films musicaux > Espagne > Histoire et critique.
Romanies > Spain > Andalusia.
Musical films > Spain > History and criticism.
Spain > Andalusia.
Spain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : modernity, race, and visibility
  • Time, racial otherness, and digressions in silent films of the 1920s
  • Female spectacle in the display case of the roaring Twenties
  • Racing for modernity : from black jazz to white Gypsy folklore
  • The gypsy "problem" : law and spatial assimilation
  • The Spanish solution : the folklorica and the fuehrer
  • Recycling folkloricas : a queer Spain.

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