00985nam0 22002651i 450 UON0029860920231205103953.72120070706d1962 |0itac50 baengGB|||| 1||||Thomas Nashea critical introductionby G.R. HibbardLondonRoutledge and Kegan Paul1962xi, 262 p.23 cm.NASHE THOMASUONC039956FIGBLondonUONL003044820Letteratura inglese e antico inglese21HIBBARDGeorge RichardUONV140359193378Routledge & K. PaulUONV246770650ITSOL20240220RICASIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOUONSIUON00298609SIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOSI Angl II B NAS-HIB SI SI 1466 5 Thomas Nashe1380414UNIOR03827nam 2200709Ia 450 991096330010332120200520144314.097866138961009781283583657128358365897802520918270252091825(CKB)2670000000240914(EBL)3414010(SSID)ssj0000711206(PQKBManifestationID)11940705(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000711206(PQKBWorkID)10693827(PQKB)10597956(MiAaPQ)EBC3414010(OCoLC)810533794(MdBmJHUP)muse23743(Au-PeEL)EBL3414010(CaPaEBR)ebr10593682(CaONFJC)MIL389610(OCoLC)923494813(Perlego)2382865(EXLCZ)99267000000024091420080918d2009 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDivas on screen Black women in American film /Mia Mask1st ed.Urbana University of Illinois Pressc20091 online resource (322 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780252076190 0252076192 9780252034220 0252034228 Includes bibliographical references and index.Dorothy Dandridge's erotic charisma -- Pam Grier : a phallic idol of perversity and sexual charisma -- Goldberg's variations on comedic charisma -- Oprah Winfrey : the cathartic, charismatic capitalist -- Halle Berry : charismatic beauty for a multicultural age.This insightful study places African American women's stardom in historical and industrial contexts by examining the star personae of five African American women: 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 ultimately complicated the conventional discursive practices through which blackness and womanhood have been represented in commercial cinema, independent film, and network television. 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 narratives of success. Finally, Mask analyzes Berry's meteoric success by acknowledging the ways in which Dandridge's career made Berry's possible. African American women in motion picturesAfrican American motion picture actors and actressesBiographyActressesUnited StatesBiographyAfrican American women in motion pictures.African American motion picture actors and actressesActresses791.4302/8092396073BMask Mia1969-1812192MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910963300103321Divas on screen4364500UNINA