The contemporary Hollywood reader

Selectie van wetenschappelijke analyses waarin vele aspecten van de filmindustrie in Hollywood uit de periode vanaf 1945 aan bod komen.

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Engels | 558 pagina's | Routledge, London [etc.] | 2009

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Mia Mask Divas on screen

Black women in American film

This study places African American women's stardom in historical 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, 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,...

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Engels | 306 pagina's | University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL [etc.] | 2009

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