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Stealing the show : African American performers and audiences in 1930s Hollywood

Petty, Miriam J., author

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\"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'\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: African American motion picture actors and actresses California Los Angeles History 20th century. / African Americans in motion pictures.
• ISBN: 9780520279759, 0520279751, 9780520279773, 0520279778

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PN1995.9.N4 P45 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE