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Josephine Baker's cinematic prism / Terri Simone Francis.

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"Josephine Baker, the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating between allure and colonialist stereotyping. Nicknamed the "Black Venus," "Black Pearl," and "Creole Goddess," Baker bl...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Francis, Terri Simone (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Baker, Josephine, > 1906-1975 > Criticism and interpretation.
African American women dancers > France.
African American motion picture actors and actresses > France.
African Americans in motion pictures.
African American entertainers > France.
Baker, Josephine, > 1906-1975
African American entertainers
African American motion picture actors and actresses
African American women dancers
African Americans in motion pictures
France
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue: What Might Be Josephine Baker's Film History
  • Introduction: Hey! Ha! Shimmy My Bananas! Refracting Baker's Image
  • 1. Traveling Shoes: Baker's Migrations and the Conundrums of Sweet Paris
  • 2. Shouting at Shadows: The Black American Press, French Colonial Culture, and La sirène des tropiques
  • 3. Unintended Exposures: Baker's Prismatic Ethnological Performance in Zouzou
  • 4. Seeing Double: Parody and Desire in Le pompier de Folies Bergère and Princesse Tam-Tam.
  • Epilogue: Long Live Josephine Baker!
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author.

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