Nordic exposures : Scandinavian identities in classical Hollywood cinema

Nordic exposures : Scandinavian identities in classical Hollywood cinema / Arne Lunde.

Nordic Exposures explores how Scandinavian whiteness and ethnicity functioned in classical Hollywood cinema between and during the two world wars. Scandinavian identities could seem mutable and constructed at moments, while at other times they were deployed as representatives of an essential, biolog...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lunde, Arne Olav
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2010.
Series:New directions in Scandinavian studies.
Subjects:
1900-1999
National characteristics, Scandinavian, in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Motion pictures
National characteristics, Scandinavian, in motion pictures
Film > USA > Motiv > Skandinavier.
Film > USA > Geschichte 1918-1939.
United States
Skandinavier > Motiv > Film > USA.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Racializing Vinland: the Nordic conquest of whiteness in technicolor's The viking
  • Scandinavian/American whiteface: ethnic whiteness and assimilation in Victor Sjöström's He who gets slapped
  • Hotel Imperial: the border crossings of Mauritz Stiller
  • Garbo talks! Scandinavians, the talkie revolution, and the crisis of foreign voice
  • Charlie Chan is Swedish: the Asian racial masquerades and Nordic otherness of Warner Oland
  • Two-faced women: Hollywood's and Third Reich cinema's war for the Nordic female star.

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