{"product_id":"divas-on-screen-black-women-in-american-film-hardback-9780252034220","title":"Divas on Screen; Black Women in American Film (Hardback) 9780252034220","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDivas on Screen\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBlack Women in American Film\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMia Mask (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780252034220\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 July 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 16 black and white photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.626 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eA \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title\u003c\/div\u003e— Choice\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMask examines the function of these stars in seminal yet underanalyzed films. She considers Dandridge's status as a sexual commodity in films such as \u003ci\u003eTamango,\u003c\/i\u003e revealing the contradictory discourses regarding race and sexuality in segregation-era American culture. Grier's feminist-camp performances in sexploitation pictures \u003ci\u003eWomen in Cages\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Big Doll House\u003c\/i\u003e and her subsequent blaxploitation vehicles \u003ci\u003eCoffy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFoxy Brown\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eSister Act\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Associate\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cpre\u003eContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Dorothy Dandridge's Erotic Charisma2. Pam Grier: A Phallic Idol of Perversity and Sexual Charisma3. Goldberg's Variations on Comedic Charisma4. Oprah Winfrey: The Cathartic, Charismatic Capitalist5. Halle Berry: Charismatic Beauty for a Multicultural AgeNotesBibliographyIndex\u003c\/pre\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520562098456,"sku":"9780252034220","price":74.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/divas-on-screen-black-women-in-american-film-hardback-9780252034220","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}