{"product_id":"white-gypsies-eva-woods-peir-9780816645855","title":"White Gypsies: Race and Stardom in Spanish Musicals","description":"\u003cp\u003eLittle 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. A timely and valuable corrective, \u003ci\u003eWhite Gypsies\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the Spanish folkloric musical films of the 1940s and '50s are inextricably tied to anxious concerns about race--especially, but not only, Gypsiness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the processes of identity formation in twentieth-century Spain--with multifaceted readings of the cinematic construction of class, gender, and sexuality--Eva Woods Peiró explores how these popular films allowed audiences to negotiate and imaginatively, at times problematically, resolve complex social contradictions. The intricate interweaving of race and modernity is particularly evident in her scrutiny of a striking popular phenomenon: how the musicals progressively whitened their stars, even as their story lines became increasingly Andalusianized and Gypsified.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Gypsies\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how these imaginary individuals constituted a veritable cultural barometer of how racial thinking was projected and understood across a broad swath of popular Spanish cinema. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eva Woods Peiró\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081664585X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816645855\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/24\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2012","brand":"Eva Woods Peiró","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44227957883135,"sku":"9780816645855","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b83c1d14-a96e-4ad5-a31e-74663b4a0780.jpg?v=1692811382","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/white-gypsies-eva-woods-peir-9780816645855","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}