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Stealing the Show
African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood
- 320 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Stealing the Show is a study of African American actors in Hollywood during the 1930s, a decade that saw the consolidation of stardom as a potent cultural and industrial force. Petty focuses on five performers whose Hollywood film careers flourished during this period—Louise Beavers, Fredi Washington, Lincoln “Stepin Fetchit” Perry, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, and Hattie McDaniel—to reveal the “problematic stardom” and the enduring, interdependent patterns of performance and spectatorship for performers and audiences of color. She maps how these actors—though regularly cast in stereotyped and marginalized roles—employed various strategies of cinematic and extracinematic performance to negotiate their complex positions in Hollywood and to ultimately “steal the show.” Drawing on a variety of source materials, Petty explores these stars’ reception among Black audiences and theorizes African American viewership in the early twentieth century. Her book is an important and welcome contribution to the literature on the movies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Stealing the Show
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Stealing the Show . . . or the Shoat?
- 1. Hattie McDaniel: “Landmark of an Era”
- 2. Bill Robinson and Black Children’s Spectatorship: “Every Kid in Colored America Is His Pal”
- 3. Louise Beavers and Fredi Washington: Delilah, Peola, and the Perfect Double Act
- 4. Lincoln Perry’s “Problematic Stardom”: Stepin Fetchit Steals the Shoat
- Conclusion: “Time Now to Stop, Actors”
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index