African American actresses : the struggle for visibility, 1900-1960 /

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Nine actresses, from Madame Sul-Te-Wan in Birth of a Nation (1915) to Ethel Waters in Member of the Wedding (1952), are profiled in African American Actresses. Charlene Regester poses questions about prevailing racial politics, on-screen and off-screen identities, and black stardom and white stardom...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Regester, Charlene B., 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2010.
Temas:
African American women in motion pictures.
African American motion picture actors and actresses > Biography.
Actors > United States > Biography.
Noires américaines au cinéma.
Acteurs > États-Unis > Biographies.
PERFORMING ARTS > Acting & Auditioning.
Actors
African American motion picture actors and actresses
African American women in motion pictures
Schwarze Frau
Filmschauspielerin
United States
USA
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Madame Sul-Te-Wan : the struggle for visibility
  • Nina Mae McKinney : early success and tumultuous career
  • Louise Beavers : negotiating racial difference
  • Fredi Washington : the masquerades and the masks
  • Hattie McDaniel : centering the margin
  • Lena Horne : actress and activist
  • Hazel Scott : resistance to othering
  • Ethel Waters : personification of otherness
  • Dorothy Dandridge : intertwining the reel and the real
  • Conclusion.

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