Hattie Mcdaniel Black Ambition, White Hollywood

Name: Hattie Mcdaniel Black Ambition, White Hollywood
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ISBN: 9780060514914

ISBN-10: 0060514914

ISBN-13: 9780060514914

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Authors: Jill Watts

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Perhaps best known for her Oscar-winning performance as Mammy in the movie classic Gone With the Wind, Hattie McDaniel has always been controversial. While her achievement bolstered the hopes of black Hollywood that the entertainment industry was finally ready to support more multidimensional, fully realized roles for blacks, screenwriters kept churning out roles that continued to denigrate the African-American experience. Though McDaniel's popularity should have increased after Selznick's masterpiece came out, as was the case for her white counterparts, it instead declined, as an increasingly politicized black audience turned against her. "I'd rather play a maid than be a maid," she…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English