Divas on Screen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Divas on Screen write by Mia Mask. This book was released on 2010-10-01. Divas on Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 underanalyzed films. She considers Dandridge's status as a sexual commodity in films such as Tamango, revealing the contradictory discourses regarding race and sexuality in segregation-era American culture. Grier's feminist-camp performances in sexploitation pictures Women in Cages and The Big Doll House and her subsequent blaxploitation vehicles Coffy and Foxy Brown highlight a similar tension between representing African American women as both objectified stereotypes and powerful, self-defining icons. Mask reads Goldberg's transforming habits in Sister Act and The Associate as representative of her unruly comedic routines, while Winfrey's daily television performance as self-made, self-help guru echoes Horatio Alger narratives of success. Finally, Mask analyzes Berry's meteoric success by acknowledging the ways in which Dandridge's career made Berry's possible.
Divas of the Silver Screen
Divas of the Silver Screen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Divas of the Silver Screen write by Mia Luise Mask. This book was released on 2001. Divas of the Silver Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Hollywood Divas, Indie Queens, and TV Heroines
Hollywood Divas, Indie Queens, and TV Heroines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hollywood Divas, Indie Queens, and TV Heroines write by Susanne Kord. This book was released on 2005. Hollywood Divas, Indie Queens, and TV Heroines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hollywood Divas, Indie Queens, and TV Heroines offers an entertaining and critical look at the representation of women in recent movies. Written in a refreshingly accessible style, the book analyzes over thirty box-office hits. The authors explore the screen personae of top stars such as Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Meg Ryan, and Renée Zellweger, as well as independent movie queens like Parker Posey and TV heroines like Sarah Michelle Gellar of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A must-read book for all film buffs who are tired of the mixed gender messages of mainstream culture.
Sitcom Queens
Sitcom Queens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sitcom Queens write by Michael Karol. This book was released on 2006-07. Sitcom Queens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whether it was Lucy and Ethel (Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance) or Eve Arden as Miss Brooks, Gale Storm as her dad's "little" Margie, always interfering but with the best of intentions, or the more modern Bea Arthur as Maude, flaunting the conventions of how a woman was supposed to behave, we all have our favorite funny ladies who brought us laughter every week, and, for a half-hour at least, took us away from our daily problems. Classic TV expert Michael Karol, in a series of original essays, examines the roles these Sitcom Queens played on TV, and how they became the beloved TV icons of generation after generation of TV fans. With a sitcom timeline and a Top 10!
SLAPSTICK DIVAS
SLAPSTICK DIVAS - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook SLAPSTICK DIVAS write by Steve Massa. This book was released on 2017-07. SLAPSTICK DIVAS available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Illustrated with 440 rare movie scene shots, formal portraits, candid behind the scenes photos, film frame enlargements, trade magazine advertisements, lobby cards, stage photographs, artist's renderings and caricatures, and casting guide entries.
