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