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Alice Maurice, The Cinema and Its Shadow: Race and Technology in Early Cinema (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013), 288 pp. + 30 b&w photos. ISBN 978-0-8166-7805-1 (paperback, $25), 978-0-8166-7804-1 (hardback, $75). Reviewed

sexuality, race, age, and suffering thread throughout the collection. In Growing Pains, writers consider Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood, and Harrison Ford as case studies in the suffering that comes with aging in Hollywood. While Monroe and Ford represent the

. Steinbock argues that sex “can be a site in which a felt sense of one's gendered, raced body can become sutured to an imperfect, wavering w/hole, not reducible to genitals or skin” (65). By exploring a medium heavily invested in the exposure of sex and

world is a stage, not multiple stages. Therefore, notions of race, nationality, or class were not considered until much later in the critical thinking process, until, that is, the introduction of queer of color critique. As Roderick Ferguson would

's commitment to white-male authority. Molina-Guzman finds that Hollywood productions can be consumed by mixed-gender and mixed-race audiences for the purposes of maximum profit. Yet ultimately, the white-male imagination behind the screen leads to the

applications and the power of makeup to RuPaul’s Drag Race challenge, where contestants self-presented with half-drag and half-male faces. Nikkie (2015b , 2015d ) also contextualizes her practice as drag with tutorials based on RuPaul’s Drag Race

to divide, rather than unite, transecting as is often the case, existing ethnic, and class divisions (Cammaert forthcoming). And this is precisely what makes End FGM problematic—the allusion/ illusion that regardless of race, religion, class or any

gender-nonconforming people who are on the female spectrum. The term's intersectional aspect includes race and class as part of its deployment and definition, since travestis are racialized as nonwhite following their exclusion from educational and formal