Keywords:
Racially mixed people in motion pictures
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Mixed Race in Hollywood Film and Media Culture -- Part I: Miscegenation: Mixed Race and the Imagined Nation -- 1. Classical Hollywood and the Filmic Writing of Interracial History, 1931-1939 -- 2. Mixed Race Frontiers: Border Westerns and the Limits of "America" -- 3. Mixedfolks.com: "Ethnic Ambiguity," Celebrity Outing, and the Internet -- Part II: Identity, Taboo, and "Spice": Screening Mixed Race Romance and Families -- 4. Catching Up with History: Night of the Quarter Moon, the Rhinelander Case, and Interracial Marriage in 1959 -- 5. A Window into a Life Uncloseted: "Spice Boy" Imaginings in New Queer Cinema -- 6. The Biracial Subject as Passive Receptacle for Japanese American Memory in Come See the Paradise -- Part III: Genre, Mixed Race, and Evolving Racial Identities -- 7. Race Mixing and the Fantastic: Lineages of Identity and Genre in Contemporary Hollywood -- 8. Virtual Race: The Racially Ambiguous Action Hero in The Matrix and Pitch Black -- 9. From Blaxploitation to Mixploitation: Male Leads and Changing Mixed Race Identities -- Part IV: Generation Mix? Shifting Meanings of Mixed Race Figures -- 10. Detecting Difference in Devil in a Blue Dress: The Mulatta Figure, Noir, and the Cinematic Reification of Race -- 11. Mixed Race in Latinowood: Latino Stardom and Ethnic Ambiguity in the Era of Dark Angels -- 12. Mixed Race on the Disney Channel: From Johnny Tsunami through Lizzie McGuire and Ending with The Cheetah Girls -- 13. The Matrix Trilogy, Keanu Reeves, and Multiraciality at the End of Time -- Contributors -- Index.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (333 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781479830039
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=30780537
DDC:
791.4308905
Language:
English
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
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