Wild Negotiations: Dolores Del Río\u27s Filmic Identity in 1940s Cinema

  • Ramirez-Dhoore, Dora
Publication date
February 2014
Publisher
IUScholarWorks

Abstract

Hollywood star, María Dolores Asúnsolo López-Negrete, best known as Dolores del Río, was admired for her beauty and cross-over appeal during her career (1930–1960s). Since her first role in Joanna (1925), the construction and marketing of del Río as a cinematic star has captured the spectator’s social imagination and presents images of Latinas that are beautiful, “exotic,” accessible, translatable, and consumable. Body and language play vital roles in constructing the image spectators have grown to expect from del Río. Her filmic identity negotiates the “wilderness of theory or difference” Elaine Showalter discusses in “Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness,” and which film theorist Linda Williams examines as the “wild zone” in “A Jury of Th...

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