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Little 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, White Gypsies 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. Focusing
on the processes of identity formation in twentieth-century
Spain-with multifaceted readings of the cinematic construction of
class, gender, and sexuality-Eva Woods Peiro 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. White
Gypsies 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.
Little 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, White Gypsies 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. Focusing
on the processes of identity formation in twentieth-century
Spain-with multifaceted readings of the cinematic construction of
class, gender, and sexuality-Eva Woods Peiro 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. White
Gypsies 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.
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