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Creating Carmen Miranda - Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom (Paperback)
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Creating Carmen Miranda - Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom (Paperback)
Series: Performing Latin American and Caribbean Identities
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Carmen Miranda got knocked down and kept going. Filming an
appearance on The Jimmy Durante Show on August 4, 1955, the
"ambassadress of samba" suddenly took a knee during a dance number,
clearly in distress. Durante covered without missing a beat, and
Miranda was back on her feet in a matter of moments to continue
with what she did best: performing. By the next morning, she was
dead from heart failure at age 46. This final performance in many
ways exemplified the power of Carmen Miranda. The actress, singer,
and dancer pursued a relentless mission to demonstrate the
provocative theatrical force of her cultural roots in Brazil. Armed
with bare-midriff dresses, platform shoes, and her iconic
fruit-basket headdresses, Miranda stole the show in films like That
Night in Rio and The Gang's All Here. For American film audiences,
her life was an example of the exoticism of a mysterious, sensual
South America. For Brazilian and Latin American audiences, she was
an icon. For the gay community, she became a work of art
personified and a symbol of courage and charisma. In Creating
Carmen Miranda, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez takes the reader through the
myriad methods Miranda consciously used to shape her performance of
race, gender, and camp culture, all to further her journey down the
road to becoming a legend.
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