... 94 CO 43-3, 94-121 6/6/00 2:49 PM Page 95 “The Ineffaceable Curse of Cain”: Racial Marking and Embodiment in Pinky Elspeth kydd Look at my fingers, are not the nails of a bluish tinge...

... framed by enclosing circles of women, as for example in the scenes of Jess’s sister Pinky’s engagement party or in the one where Jess and Pinky are being measured for saris. Some of these, like the engagement party scenes, are immediately intercut with the open spaces of the park. But given...

... Culture  • 99 the “substitution of a mechanical double,” a theme humorously revisited in “Too Many Pinkie Pies.”31 In “Dragonshy,” the ponies are motivated to act as a team by “the threat of toxicity and the turning of a homeland into a wasteland” when a sleeping dragon pollutes the sky...

...• sexual, and thereafter the signs of homosexuality proliferate. Not only does Rex enact the traits Brad had warned her about-drinking with his pinky extended and asking about recipes for dip-but the very the scene of the date occurs in a bar called the Hidden Door, thus sug...

... was not shared by Zanuck. Yet as head of Twentieth Century- Fox, Zanuck had overseen Laura (dir. Otto Preminger, US, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (dir. Elia Kazan, US, Pinky (dir. Elia Kazan, US, Cheaper by the Dozen, Belles on Their Toes (dir. Henry Levin, US, and All about Eve, all...

... can speak a different Butterfly” (200). Carey smiles sheepishly at the camera. Naked except for a ring on her pinky, another on her ring finger (in place of a wed- ding band), and a bracelet, each piece adorned with a butterfly —  a signature motif of the French jewelry house Van Cleef...

... and the mass media effectively halted her film career; afterStormy Weather and Cabin in the Sky, MGM kept her under contract but refused to cast her in any more starring roles, and she famously lost key “mulatta” roles to white actresses — in Pinky (dir. Elia Kazan, US, 1949) to Jeanne Crain...

... asexuality of many supporting characters in classical Hollywood films — such as Pinky (dir. Elia Kazan, US, 1949), Rebecca (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, US, 1940), or All about Eve (dir. Joseph Mankiewicz, US, 1950) — was mobilized to counteract the suggestion of homosexuality in female homosocial...

... he went to Syracuse University, she replies, “I read a statistic that said that Syracuse has the highest incidence of date rape of any university . . . which weirdly went way down the year that you gradu- ated.” Her pinky finger plays at the corner of her mouth in an awk- ward attempt...

... against Blacks, with Home of the Brave (dir. Mark Robson,1949), Lost Boundaries (dir. Alfred Werker, 1949), Pinky (dir. Elia Kazan, 1949), Intruder in the Dust (dir. Clarence Brown, 1949), and No Way Out (dir. Joseph Mankiewicz, 1949).15...