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Ethnic Masculinity and Early Television's Vaudeo Star
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 42, Number 1, Fall 2002
- pp. 97-119
- 10.1353/cj.2002.0023
- Article
- Additional Information
This article discusses how the seemingly contradictory construction of many early television comedy stars bespeaks rather coherent symbolic constructions of ethnicity, masculinity, and anxieties over the changing demographics of the American cultural landscape.