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Sidney Poitier : man, actor, icon / Aram Goudsouzian.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Goudsouzian, Aram.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Actors--United States--Biography.
Actors.
African American actors--Biography.
African American actors.
Poitier, Sidney.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (495 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
In this biography of actor Sidney Poitier, Aram Goudsouzian analyses the life and career of a Hollywood legend, from his childhood in the Bahamas to his 2002 Oscar for lifetime achievement.
Contents:
pt. 1. Poverty and progress ; Patches (1927-1943) ; Great migrations (1943-1945) ; Stages (1945-1949)
pt. II. Race man ; Message movies (1949-1952) ; Black lists (1951-1954) ; Threats (1955-1957) ; Noble savages (1956-1957)
pt. III. Black man's burden ; Decisions (1957-1959) ; Burdens (1959-1961) ; Blues (1960-1962) ; Long journeys (1963-1964)
pt. IV. Alone in the penthouse ; Crossroads (1965-1966) ; Useful negroes (1966-1967) ; Last hurrahs (1967-1968)
pt. V. Through playing God ; Exiles (1967-1971) ; Survivors (1972-1978) ; Ghosts (1978-2002).
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-465) and index.
ISBN:
979-88-908784-0-3
979-88-9313-169-7
0-8078-7584-8
1-4696-0360-8
OCLC:
62149292

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