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Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham : dances in literature and cinema / Hannah Durkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Durkin, Hannah, author.
- Series:
- Illinois scholarship online.
- Illinois scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women dancers--Biography--History and criticism.
- African American women dancers.
- African American women dancers--Biography.
- Dance in literature.
- Dance in motion pictures, television, etc--United States.
- Dance in motion pictures, television, etc.
- Dance in motion pictures, television, etc--Europe.
- African Americans in motion pictures.
- Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975--Criticism and interpretation.
- Baker, Josephine.
- Dunham, Katherine--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dunham, Katherine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Baker was the first Black woman to enjoy a starring role in mainstream cinema and Dunham was the first Black choreographer to be credited for her screen work. Equally, they were the first well-known African American women to produce multivolume accounts of their lives, and their writings serve as valuable firsthand documents of Black women's interwar experiences. This book investigates questions surrounding their self-invention, agency and reception. In so doing, it uncovers the cultural significance of Baker and Dunham's films and writings and interrogates their performances within them to recover their authorship.
- Contents:
- The dancer in translation : Baker's coauthored narratives
- The dancer as translator : Dunham's ethnographic memoirs
- Performing within primitivism : Baker on the French silent screen
- Cinematic stardom : Baker and the 1930s French musical film
- Cinematic segregation : Dunham in World War II Hollywood
- Navigating primitivism's persistent gaze : Dunham in postwar European cinema.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 7, 2020).
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252051463
- 0252051467
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