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PublishedOn
2016-04-19
ISBN
9780520279773
EAN
9780520279773
Book Title
Stealing the Show : African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood
Item Length
9in
Publisher
University of California Press
Publication Year
2016
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.9in
Author
Miriam J. Petty
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Performing Arts
Topic
Social History, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism, African American
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Stealing the Show is a study of African American actors in Hollywood during the 1930s, a decade that saw the consolidation of stardom as a potent cultural and industrial force. Petty focuses on five performers whose Hollywood film careers flourished during this period--Louise Beavers, Fredi Washington, Lincoln "Stepin Fetchit" Perry, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and Hattie McDaniel--to reveal the "problematic stardom" and the enduring, interdependent patterns of performance and spectatorship for performers and audiences of color. She maps how these actors--though regularly cast in stereotyped and marginalized roles--employed various strategies of cinematic and extracinematic performance to negotiate their complex positions in Hollywood and to ultimately "steal the show." Drawing on a variety of source materials, Petty explores these stars' reception among Black audiences and theorizes African American viewership in the early twentieth century. Her book is an important and welcome contribution to the literature on the movies.

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Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520279778
ISBN-13
9780520279773
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219305500

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Book Title
Stealing the Show : African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood
Author
Miriam J. Petty
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Social History, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism, African American
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pn1995.9.N4p45 2016
Reviews
[Miriam Petty's] ambitious book places Stepin' Fetchit (the persona of Lincoln Perry) in a new light, and all of her subjects in high relief... [a] fine book., "[Miriam Petty's] ambitious book places Stepin' Fetchit (the persona of Lincoln Perry) in a new light, and all of her subjects in high relief... [a] fine book." 
Copyright Date
2016
Lccn
2015-032357
Dewey Decimal
791.43/652996073
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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