Nordic Exposures explores how Scandinavian whiteness and ethnicity functioned in classical Hollywood cinema between and during the two world wars.

Arne Lunde is assistant professor of Scandinavian studies at UCLA.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Racializing Vinland: The Nordic Conquest of Whiteness in Technicolor's ?The Viking?

2. Scandinavian/American Whiteface: Ethnic Whiteness and Assimilation in Victor Sjostrom's ?He Who Gets Slapped?

3. Hotel Imperial: The Border Crossings of Mauritz Stiller

4. Garbo Talks: Scandinavians, the Talkie Revolution, and the Crisis of Foreign Voice

5. Charlie Chan is Swedish: The Asian Racial Masquerades and Nordic Otherness of Warner Oland

6. Two-Faced Women: Hollywood's and Third Reich Cinema's War for the Nordic Female Star

Conclusion

Notes

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