Divas On Screen Black Women In American Film
MASK Mia
- Paperback
- Edition: 1
NZ$64.00
Out of stock
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 under analyzed films. She considers Dandridge's status as a sexual commodity in ...
Publication date: 2009-07
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subjects:
Category, Non-fiction, Art/design/film, Film, TV & Radio, Film Theory & Criticism, Humanities, History, Social & Cultural History, Social Sciences, Sociology, Gender Studies: Women, Hispanic & Latino Studies