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1 online resource (xi, 405 pages, 14 pages of plates) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Access |
Access available to onsite users at SLQ, e-services members and Queensland public library (QPL) account holders. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African American women in motion pictures.
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African American women in motion pictures. |
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African American motion picture actors and actresses -- Biography.
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African American motion picture actors and actresses. |
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Biographies.
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Actors -- United States -- Biography.
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Actors. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Regester, Charlene B., 1956- African American actresses. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2010 9780253354754 (DLC) 2009051159 (OCoLC)419823714 |
| ISBN |
9780253004314 |
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0253004314 |
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9780253354754 |
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0253354757 |
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9780253221926 |
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0253221927 |
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1282663291 |
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9781282663299 |
| Standard No. |
9786612663291 |
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