Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Eva Woods Peir is associate professor of Hispanic studies and director of the Media Studies Program at Vassar College.

Reviews

"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