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Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham : dances in literature and cinema /

"This project examines the writings and international film careers of Josephine Baker (1906-1975) and Katherine Dunham (1909-2006), the two most critically and commercially successful Black women dancers of the twentieth century. Drawing on previously unexamined films and texts, Hannah Durkin m...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Durkin, Hannah (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The dancer in translation : Baker's coauthored narratives
  • The dancer as translator : Dunham's ethnographic memoirs
  • Performing within primitivism : Baker on the French silent screen
  • Cinematic stardom : Baker and the 1930s French musical film
  • Cinematic segregation : Dunham in World War II Hollywood
  • Navigating primitivism's persistent gaze : Dunham in postwar European cinema.