Dance and the Hollywood Latina Race Sex and by Priscilla Pena Ovalle PAPERBACK

Dance and the Hollywood LatinaRace, Sex, and Stardom\nAuthor(s): Priscilla Pea Ovalle\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9780813548814, 978-0813548814\nSynopsis\nDance and the Hollywood Latina asks why every Latina star in Hollywood history, from Dolores Del Rio in the 1920s to Jennifer Lopez in the 2000s, began as a dancer or danced onscreen. While cinematic depictions of women and minorities have seemingly improved, a century of representing brown women as natural dancers has popularized the notion that Latinas are inherently passionate and promiscuous. Yet some Latina actresses became stars by embracing and manipulating these stereotypical fantasies.\n\nIntroducing the concepts of \""inbetween-ness\"" and \""racial mobility\"" to further illuminate how racialized sexuality and the dancing female body operate in film, Priscilla Pea Ovalle focuses on the careers of Dolores Del Rio, Rita Hayworth, Carmen Mir.