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African American Actresses – The Struggle for Visibility, 1900–1960 de Charlene B. Regester

African American Actresses – The Struggle for Visibility, 1900–1960

Autor Charlene B. Regester
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 iun 2010
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. She reveals how these women fought for their roles as well as what they compromised (or didn't compromise). Regester repositions these actresses to highlight their contributions to cinema in the first half of the 20th century, taking an informed theoretical, historical, and critical approach.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253221926
ISBN-10: 0253221927
Pagini: 440
Ilustrații: 14 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press

Recenzii

Gorgeous both visually and textually, this book brings to light, as the title indicates, the "struggle for visibility" faced by African American actresses during what is usually called Hollywood's "Golden Age." Regester (African and Afro-American studies, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) organizes the book more or less chronologically, and begins with the career of Madame Sul-Te-Wan, who was a pioneering African American actress of the silents and continued working well into the sound era. The author follows this with discussions of Nina Mae McKinney, Louise Beavers, Fredi Washington, Hattie McDaniel, Lena Horne, Hazel Scott, Ethel Waters, and Dorothy Dandridge--all of whom were underutilized to a degree that seems almost criminal. Historically sound and superbly written, this volume highlights the numerous obstacles these talented women faced working in films during an overwhelmingly racist era. Pursuing their craft with elegance, style, and determination, all these women fought a constant battle against racial stereotyping, demeaning roles as servants and maids, and the racism that infected the country as a whole. An exemplary study of race in US cinema, this is easily the best book on the subject to date. Summing Up: Essential. All readers. -- ChoiceG. A. Foster, University of Nebraska--Lincoln, Jan. 2011--G. A. Foster, University of Nebraska--Lincoln (01/01/2011)

Notă biografică

Charlene Regester is Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She is co-editor of the Oscar Micheaux Society Newsletter and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Film and Video.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Madame Sul-Te-Wan: The Struggle for Visibility
2. Nina Mae McKinney: Early Success and Tumultuous Career
3. Louise Beavers: Negotiating Racial Difference
4. Fredi Washington: The Masquerades and the Masks
5. Hattie McDaniel: Centering the Margin
6. Lena Horne: Actress and Activist
7. Hazel Scott: Resistance to Othering
8. Ethel Waters: Personification of Otherness
9. Dorothy Dandridge: Intertwining the Reel and the Real
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Descriere

Black women and Hollywood in the pre–Civil Rights era