Contents
Preface
Introduction: Modernity, Race, and Visibility
1. Time, Racial Otherness, and Digressions in Silent Films of the
1920s
2. Female Spectacle in the Display Case of the Roaring Twenties
3. Racing for Modernity: From Black Jazz to White Gypsy
Folklore
4. The Gypsy “Problem”: Law and Spatial Assimilation
5. The Spanish Solution: The Folklórica and the Führer
6. Recycling Folklóricas: A Queer Spain
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
Eva Woods Peir is associate professor of Hispanic studies and director of the Media Studies Program at Vassar College.
"White Gypsies enriches our understanding of the material history
of the pre-, post-, and civil war periods, broadens Spanish cinema
studies to focus on more popular forms of film entertainment, and
combines a novel attention to race with nuanced readings of the
intersections of the cinematographic construction of class, gender,
and sexuality during the first half of the twentieth century."
—Susan Martin-Márquez, Rutgers University
"Eva Woods Peiró argues that Spanish musicals, while highly
ambivalent and problematic in terms of their representation of
race, are not reactionary exaltations of a premodern rural Spain
but that their central notion of female stardom inserts women into
modernity. This crucial perception turns interpretations of the
genre on its head." —Jo Labanyi, New York University
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