Heat Wave - The Life and Career of Ethel Waters

"Mr. Bogle continues to be our most noted black-cinema historian." --Spike Lee "Donald Bogle [is a] pioneering safe-keeper of the history of blacks in film." -- Vogue From Donald Bogle, author of the bestselling Dorothy Dandridge and Toms, Coons, Mulattos, Mammies, and Bucks , a groundbreaking history of African American portrayals in Hollywood, comes the long-awaited, definitive biography of one of America''s brightest and most troubled theatrical stars: actress and singer Ethel Waters. In Heat Wave , Bogle explores Waters'' relationships with other performing greats, including Lena Horne, Count Basie, Vincent Minnelli, and many others, and paints a vivid, deeply human portrait of this legendary performer--a must-read for any fan of jazz, blues, and classic American cinema.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Donald Bogle is one of the country's leading authorities on African Americans in Hollywood. He is the author of the groundbreaking Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films; the acclaimed biography Dorothy Dandridge; and Brown Sugar: Over 100 Years of America's Black Female Superstars. He teaches at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and at the University of Pennsylvania.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Donald Bogle
• Verlag: Harper Perennial USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 26.06.2012
• EAN: 9780061241741
• ISBN: 978-0-06-124174-1
• Seiten: 656
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 27 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Theater, Ballett; PERFORMING ARTS: Film & Video / General, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS: Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir *, DRAMA: Women Authors, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: General, HISTORY: Reference, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: THE ARTS, HISTORY: African American & Black, HISTORY: Essays, PERFORMING ARTS: Acting & Auditioning