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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Donald Bogle
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.06.2012
• EAN: 9780061241741
• ISBN: 978-0-06-124174-1
• No. of pages: 656
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; 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