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Creating Carmen Miranda - Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom (Paperback): Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez Creating Carmen Miranda - Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom (Paperback)
Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
R929 Discovery Miles 9 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Creating Carmen Miranda - Sex, Camp, and Transnational Stardom (Hardcover): Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez Creating Carmen Miranda - Sex, Camp, and Transnational Stardom (Hardcover)
Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
R2,477 Discovery Miles 24 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 and continued 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.

Performing Brazil - Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Performing Arts (Paperback): Severino J. Albuquerque, Kathryn... Performing Brazil - Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Performing Arts (Paperback)
Severino J. Albuquerque, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
R1,148 Discovery Miles 11 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A field-shaping anthology by top cultural critics and practitioners representing a wide range of disciplines and art forms, "Performing Brazil" is the first book to bring together studies of the many and varied manifestations of Brazilian performance in and beyond their country of origin. Arguing that diverse forms of performance are best understood when presented in tandem, it offers new takes on better-known forms, such as carnival and capoeira, as well as those studied less often, including gender acts, curatorial practice, political protest, and the performance of Brazil in the United States.
The contributors to the volume are Maria Jose Somerlate Barbosa, Eric Galm, Annie Gibson, Ana Paula Hofling, Benjamin Legg, Bryan McCann, Simone Osthoff, Fernando de Sousa Rocha, Cristina F. Rosa, Alessandra Santos, and Lidia Santos.

Portuguese Literature and the Environment (Hardcover): Ines Amorim, Vincent Barletta, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez, Maria Joao... Portuguese Literature and the Environment (Hardcover)
Ines Amorim, Vincent Barletta, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez, Maria Joao Dodman, Isabel A Ferreira Gould, …
R3,484 Discovery Miles 34 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Portuguese Literature and the Environment explores the relationship between Portuguese literature and the environment from Medieval times to the present. From the centrality of nature in Medieval poetry, through the bucolic verse of the Renaissance, all the way to the Romantic and post-Romantic nostalgia for a pristine natural or rural landscape under threat in the wake of industrialization, Portuguese literature has frequently reflected on the connection between humans and the natural world. More recently, the postcolonial turn in contemporary literature has highlighted the contrast between the environment of the former colonies and that of Portugal. Contributors to the collection examine how Portuguese writers engage with the environment and have incorporated nature in their texts not only to prompt social, political or philosophical reflections on human society, but also as a way to learn from non-humans. The book is organized into three sections. The first explores the relationship between Portuguese philosophy, historiography, culture, and environmental issues. The second section discusses the link between literary texts and the environment from the Renaissance to 1900. The final section analyzes the connection between literary movements or specific authors and environmental change from 1900 to today. Scholars of literature, Latin American studies, literature, and environmental studies will find this volume especially useful.

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