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Stealing the Show - African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood (Hardcover)
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Stealing the Show - African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood (Hardcover)
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Stealing the Show is 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." Drawing
on a variety of source materials, Petty explores these stars'
reception among Black audiences and theorizes African American
viewership in the early twentieth century. Her book is an important
and welcome contribution to the literature on the movies.
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