His Eye on the Sparrow - An Autobiography

Informationen zum Autor Charles Samuels, a New York newspaperman, wrote biographies of Jody Garland, Lizzie Borden, and Evelyn Nesbit. He worked with Buster Keaton on My Wonderful World of Slapstick (also available from Da Capo Press). Donald Bogle is the author of Brown Sugar: Eighty Years of America's Black Female Superstars , Blacks in American Film & Television: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, and Toms, Coon, Mulattoes, Mammies & Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films. He has been called "the dean of black film history." Klappentext "Ethel Waters's His Eye is on the Sparrow stands as perhaps the greatest autobiography of a black female performer! capturing both the horror and the joy of the African American woman's experience thro" Zusammenfassung Ethel Waters's His Eye is on the Sparrow stands as perhaps the greatest autobiography of a black female performer, capturing both the horror and the joy of the African American woman's experience through the often bitter yet always forgiving voice of an indomitable spirit. This edition is supplemented with a new historical preface and over a dozen photographs.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Samuels, Samuels Charles, Ethel Waters, Ethel Samuels Waters
• Assisted by: Danald Bogle (Photographs), Donald Bogle (Editor)
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1992
• EAN: 9780306804779
• ISBN: 978-0-306-80477-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Quality Paperbacks Series; Quality Paperbacks Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Dance, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, Other performing arts, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity