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SHAKE YOUR ASSETS: DANCE AND THE PERFORMANCE OF
LATINA SEXUALITY IN HOLLYWOOD FILM
by
Priscilla Peña Ovalle
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(CINEMA)
December 2006
Copyright 2006 Priscilla Peña Ovalle
Object Description
| Title | Shake your assets: dance and the performance of Latina sexuality in Hollywood film |
| Author | Ovalle, Priscilla Peña |
| Author email | povalle@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Cinema-Television (Critical Studies) |
| School | School of Cinema-Television |
| Date defended/completed | 2006-06-01 |
| Date submitted | 2006 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 14 Nov. 2008. |
| Date published | 2008-11-14 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Kinder, Marsha |
| Advisor (committee member) |
McPherson, Tara Roman, David |
| Abstract | "Shake Your Assets" argues that dance is crucial to Latina fame in Hollywood film. Through dance, Hollywood has racialized and sexualized the Latina performer's body and persona. The dancing Latina -- where one Latina symbolizes all Latinas, regardless of her national origin -- becomes a fluid embodiment of race, gender and sexuality against which an ever-shifting ideal of the US citizen is visualized. Yet, the Latina celebrity has capitalized on these roles for stardom and career.; To identify how Latina representation fluxes with the shifting racial formations of the United States, I chronicle the careers of Lupe Velez in the 1920s, Dolores Del Rio in the 1930s, Carmen Miranda and Rita Hayworth (Rita Cansino) in the 1940s and Jennifer Lopez in the present. My dissertation combines the theories of Media Studies, Performance Studies and American Studies with primary sources, archival work and textual analyses (film, print publicity, choreography) to show how Hollywood has historically naturalized dance on the Latina body, constructing this performance as an inherently and purportedly cultural ability. |
| Keyword | Latina; race; ethnic; body; nation; United States; dance; sexuality; performance; film; cinema; representation |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m131 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Ovalle, Priscilla Peña |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Ovalle-20061114 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Ovalle-20061114.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | SHAKE YOUR ASSETS: DANCE AND THE PERFORMANCE OF LATINA SEXUALITY IN HOLLYWOOD FILM by Priscilla Peña Ovalle A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (CINEMA) December 2006 Copyright 2006 Priscilla Peña Ovalle |
