LEADER 05141oam 22007574a 450 001 9910794455303321 005 20230502232023.0 010 $a0-253-35653-9 010 $a0-253-05217-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000011706574 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6451979 035 $a(OCoLC)1192303962 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_99020 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30657072 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30657072 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011706574 100 $a20200806d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aJosephine Baker's Cinematic Prism$fTerri Simone Francis 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$d[2021]$aBloomington, Indiana :$cIndiana University Press, 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 199 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-253-22338-5 311 $a0-253-01759-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: What Might Be Josephine Baker's Film History -- Introduction: Hey! Ha! Shimmy My Bananas! Refracting Baker's Image -- 1. Traveling Shoes: Baker's Migrations and the Conundrums of Sweet Paris -- 2. Shouting at Shadows: The Black American Press, French Colonial Culture, and La sire?ne des tropiques -- 3. Unintended Exposures: Baker's Prismatic Ethnological Performance in Zouzou -- 4. Seeing Double: Parody and Desire in Le pompier de Folies Berge?re and Princesse Tam-Tam -- Epilogue: Long Live Josephine Baker! -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author. 330 $a"Josephine Baker, the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating between allure and colonialist stereotyping. Nicknamed the "Black Venus," "Black Pearl," and "Creole Goddess," Baker blended the sensual and the comedic when taking 1920s Europe by storm. Back home in the United States, Baker's film career brought hope to the black press that a new cinema centered on black glamour would come to fruition. In Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism, Terri Simone Francis examines how Baker fashioned her celebrity through cinematic reflexivity, an authorial strategy in which she placed herself, her persona, and her character into visual dialogue. Francis contends that though Baker was an African American actress who lived and worked in France exclusively with a white film company, white costars, white writers, and white directors, she holds monumental significance for African American cinema as the first truly global black woman film star. Francis also examines the double-talk between Baker and her characters in Le Pompier de Folies Berge?re, La Sire?ne des Tropiques, Zou Zou, Princesse Tam Tam, and The French Way, whose narratives seem to undermine the very stardom they offered. In doing so, Francis artfully illuminates the most resonant links between emergent African American cinephilia, the diverse opinions of Baker in the popular press, and African Americans' broader aspirations for progress toward racial equality. Examining an unexplored aspect of Baker's career, Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism deepens the ongoing conversation about race, gender, and performance in the African Diaspora"--$cProvided by publisher 606 $aAfrican Americans in motion pictures$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00799733 606 $aAfrican American women dancers$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01930709 606 $aAfrican American motion picture actors and actresses$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00799268 606 $aAfrican American entertainers$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00799146 606 $aNoirs americains au cinema 606 $aAfrican American women dancers$zFrance 606 $aAfrican American motion picture actors and actresses$zFrance 606 $aAfrican American entertainers$zFrance 606 $aAfrican Americans in motion pictures 606 $aAfrican American women dancers$zFrance 606 $aAfrican American motion picture actors and actresses$zFrance 606 $aAfrican American entertainers$zFrance 607 $aFrance$2fast 608 $aLivres numeriques. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in motion pictures. 615 0$aAfrican American women dancers. 615 0$aAfrican American motion picture actors and actresses. 615 0$aAfrican American entertainers. 615 0$aNoirs americains au cinema. 615 0$aAfrican American women dancers 615 0$aAfrican American motion picture actors and actresses 615 0$aAfrican American entertainers 615 0$aAfrican Americans in motion pictures. 615 0$aAfrican American women dancers 615 0$aAfrican American motion picture actors and actresses 615 0$aAfrican American entertainers 676 $a792.8092 700 $aFrancis$b Terri Simone$01509263 712 02$aProQuest (Firm) 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794455303321 996 $aJosephine Baker's Cinematic Prism$93741007 997 $aUNINA