02981nam 2200625Ia 450 991082885410332120200520144314.01-282-66329-197866126632910-253-00431-4(CKB)2670000000029530(OCoLC)646068248(CaPaEBR)ebrary10395953(SSID)ssj0000411389(PQKBManifestationID)11306202(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411389(PQKBWorkID)10356470(PQKB)10601453(MiAaPQ)EBC547023(MdBmJHUP)muse17023(Au-PeEL)EBL547023(CaPaEBR)ebr10395953(CaONFJC)MIL266329(EXLCZ)99267000000002953020091217d2010 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAfrican American actresses the struggle for visibility, 1900-1960 /Charlene Regester1st ed.Bloomington Indiana University Press20101 online resource (436 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-253-35475-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.African American women in motion picturesAfrican American motion picture actors and actressesBiographyActorsUnited StatesBiographyAfrican American women in motion pictures.African American motion picture actors and actressesActors791.4302/8092396073BRegester Charlene B.1956-1675176MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828854103321African American actresses4040457UNINA