2006
DOI: 10.5007/2175-8026.2006n51p93
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Carmen Miranda’s white dress: ethnicity, syncretism and subaltern sexualities in springtime in the rockies

Abstract: Abstract Abstract AbstractThis essay calls for a reassessment of Carmen Miranda's work in Hollywood. Her singing and dancing can reveal unexpected ethnic and cultural alignments. The focus here is on the costumes she designed for Springtime in the Rockies, a Fox musical in which Brazilian as well as Native American cultural references are made explicit in Miranda's performance.

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“…Carmen packaged "the perceived exotic passion of nonwhiteness for white consumption" (Ovalle, 2010, p. 62), helping to sell "South American-inspired North American fashions to South American women". In 1944, the United Fruit Company even created a brand character called Chiquita Banana inspired by Carmen's persona (Gatti, 2006;O'Neil, 2005). Nowadays, Carmen is evoked to promote tourism (Macedo & Sant'Anna, 2014;O'Neil, 2005), brands (Carvalho, 2019;Castro, 2005), and to set the mood in fashion editorials (Sant'Anna & Macedo, 2013).…”
Section: "The Lady In the Tutti-frutti Hat": Carmen Miranda The Marke...mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Carmen packaged "the perceived exotic passion of nonwhiteness for white consumption" (Ovalle, 2010, p. 62), helping to sell "South American-inspired North American fashions to South American women". In 1944, the United Fruit Company even created a brand character called Chiquita Banana inspired by Carmen's persona (Gatti, 2006;O'Neil, 2005). Nowadays, Carmen is evoked to promote tourism (Macedo & Sant'Anna, 2014;O'Neil, 2005), brands (Carvalho, 2019;Castro, 2005), and to set the mood in fashion editorials (Sant'Anna & Macedo, 2013).…”
Section: "The Lady In the Tutti-frutti Hat": Carmen Miranda The Marke...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Carmen's baiana was a mixture of traditional elements, Hollywood exoticism, and her own sensibility/style (Hall-Araújo, 2013b). Dorival Caymmi, the young Afro-Brazilian composer of the song, took Carmen to a dressmaker to develop her baiana look, or so the story goes (Gatti, 2006).…”
Section: "O Que Que a Baiana Tem?": Clothes And Costumesmentioning
confidence: 99%