Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism / Terri Simone Francis

• Autore: Francis Terri Simone
• Pubblicazione: [2021]; Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 199 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 792.8092
• Soggetto topico: African Americans in motion pictures; African American women dancers; African American motion picture actors and actresses; African American entertainers; Noirs americains au cinema; African American women dancers - France; African American motion picture actors and actresses - France; African American entertainers - France
• Soggetto geografico: France
• Soggetto genere / forma: Livres numeriques.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- 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 sirène des tropiques -- 3. Unintended Exposures: Baker's Prismatic Ethnological Performance in Zouzou -- 4. Seeing Double: Parody and Desire in Le pompier de Folies Bergère and Princesse Tam-Tam -- Epilogue: Long Live Josephine Baker! -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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 Bergère, La Sirène 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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism
• ISBN: 0-253-35653-9; 0-253-05217-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816067703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II