Read Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film

Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film

Mia Mask

4.9/5 (33639 ratings)

Description:This insightful study places African American women's stardom in historical and industrial contexts by examining the star personae of five African American Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Halle Berry. Interpreting each woman's celebrity as predicated on a brand of charismatic authority, Mia Mask shows how these female stars have deftly negotiated the uneven terrain of racial, gender, and class stereotypes. As international celebrities, these women have ultimately complicated the conventional discursive and industrial practices through which blackness and womanhood have been represented in commercial cinema, independent film, and network television._x000B__x000B_Mask examines the function of these stars in seminal yet underanalyzed films. She considers Dandridge's status as a sexual commodity in films such as Tamango, revealing the contradictory discourses regarding race and sexuality in segregation-era American culture. Grier's feminist-camp performances in sexploitation pictures Women in Cages and The Big Doll House and her subsequent blaxploitation vehicles Coffy and Foxy Brown highlight a similar tension between representing African American women as both objectified stereotypes and powerful, self-defining icons. Mask reads Goldberg's transforming habits in Sister Act and The Associate as representative of her unruly comedic routines, while Winfrey's daily television performance as self-made, self-help guru echoes Horatio Alger's narratives of success. Finally, Mask analyzes Berry's meteoric success by acknowledging the ways in which Dandridge's career made Berry's possible.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film. To get started finding Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0252091825

Description: This insightful study places African American women's stardom in historical and industrial contexts by examining the star personae of five African American Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Halle Berry. Interpreting each woman's celebrity as predicated on a brand of charismatic authority, Mia Mask shows how these female stars have deftly negotiated the uneven terrain of racial, gender, and class stereotypes. As international celebrities, these women have ultimately complicated the conventional discursive and industrial practices through which blackness and womanhood have been represented in commercial cinema, independent film, and network television._x000B__x000B_Mask examines the function of these stars in seminal yet underanalyzed films. She considers Dandridge's status as a sexual commodity in films such as Tamango, revealing the contradictory discourses regarding race and sexuality in segregation-era American culture. Grier's feminist-camp performances in sexploitation pictures Women in Cages and The Big Doll House and her subsequent blaxploitation vehicles Coffy and Foxy Brown highlight a similar tension between representing African American women as both objectified stereotypes and powerful, self-defining icons. Mask reads Goldberg's transforming habits in Sister Act and The Associate as representative of her unruly comedic routines, while Winfrey's daily television performance as self-made, self-help guru echoes Horatio Alger's narratives of success. Finally, Mask analyzes Berry's meteoric success by acknowledging the ways in which Dandridge's career made Berry's possible.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film. To get started finding Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film

Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film

More Books

Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western

Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western

Contemporary Black American Cinema: Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies

Contemporary Black American Cinema: Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies

[(Contemporary Black American Cinema: Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies)] [Author: Mia Mask] published on (May, 2014)

[(Contemporary Black American Cinema: Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies)] [Author: Mia Mask] published on (May, 2014)

Mia's Mask

Mia's Mask

Black American Cinema Revisited (Afi Film Readers)

Black American Cinema Revisited (Afi Film Readers)

Mia and her Mask

Mia and her Mask

Mia Nakamine Mask bijo fetish DATE 265 pics (Japanese Edition)

Mia Nakamine Mask bijo fetish DATE 265 pics (Japanese Edition)

[Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation] [Author: x] [September, 2004]

[Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation] [Author: x] [September, 2004]