We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Beauty in Black and White? Race, Beauty, and the 1926 Fox Film Photogenic Beauty Contest in Brazil.
- Authors
Suk, Lena Oak
- Abstract
In 1926, the Fox Film Corporation held a “Masculine and Feminine Photogenic Beauty Contest” to find Hollywood’s newest “Latin” star in Brazil and other countries. North American film representatives asked for contestants who were “white with Latin blood.” The exotic allure of this racialized category contradicted Brazilian elites’ preference for eugenic, chaste, white beauty. Brazilian film critics, advertisers, and beauty contestants negotiated transnational standards of beauty as they sought faces, bodies, and sexual appeal that would conquer Hollywood. Ultimately, Brazilian films intellectuals forged their own meanings of “white with Latin blood” even as they upheld the supremacy of white beauty. However, the contest demonstrates how the transnational contours of cinema offered a liminal space for competing standards of racialized beauty in Brazil.
- Subjects
BEAUTY contests; FOX Film Corp.; TRANSNATIONALISM; SEXUAL attraction; FILM critics
- Publication
Latin American Research Review, 2019, Vol 54, Issue 4, p909
- ISSN
0023-8791
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.25222/larr.4