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Bette Davis Black and White
Bette Davis’s career becomes a vehicle for a deep examination of American race relations.
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Bette Davis’s career becomes a vehicle for a deep examination of American race relations.
Bette Davis was not only one of Hollywood’s brightest stars, but also one of its most outspoken advocates on matters of race. In Bette Davis Black and White, Julia A. Stern explores this largely untold facet of Davis’s brilliant career.
Bette Davis Black and White analyzes four of Davis’s best-known pictures—Jezebel (1938), The Little Foxes (1941), In This Our Life (1942), and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)—against the history of American race relations. Stern also weaves in memories of her own experiences as a young viewer, coming into racial consciousness watching Davis’s films on television in an all-white suburb of Chicago.
Davis’s egalitarian politics and unique collaborations with her Black costars offer Stern a window into midcentury American racial fantasy and the efforts of Black performers to disrupt it. This book incorporates testimony from Davis’s Black contemporaries, including James Baldwin and C. L. R. James, as well as the African American fans who penned letters to Warner Brothers praising Davis’s work.
A unique combination of history, star study, and memoir, Bette Davis Black and White allows us to contemplate cross-racial spectatorship in new ways.
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Bette Davis Black and White by Julia A Stern is praised for its insightful exploration of race and class within American culture through the lens of Bette Davis's career. Reviewers highlight its in-depth analysis and research, valuable for those interested in stardom, racial politics, and the roles of lesser-known Black actors in Hollywood. The book is considered a significant contribution to understanding twentieth-century American history and film.
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ISBN: 9780226813868
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 19 January 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 140.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Julia A. Stern is the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence and professor of English at Northwestern University. She is the author of The Plight of Feeling: Sympathy and Dissent in the Early American Novel and Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
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