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Creating Carmen Miranda: Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom
Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
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Description for Creating Carmen Miranda: Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom
Hardcover. In Creating Carmen Miranda, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez takes the reader through the myriad methods Miranda consciously used to shape her performance of race, gender, and camp culture, all to further her journey down the road to becoming a legend. Num Pages: 296 pages, 10 b&w photos. BIC Classification: APB; APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 262 x 26. Weight in Grams: 740.
Carmen Miranda got knocked down and kept going. Filming an appearance on The Jimmy Durante Show on August 4, 1955, the ambassadress of samba suddenly took a knee during a dance number, clearly in distress. Durante covered without missing a beat, and Miranda was back on her feet in a matter of moments and continued with what she did best: performing. By the next morning, she was dead from heart failure at age 46. This final performance in many ways exemplified the power of Carmen Miranda. The actress, singer, and dancer pursued a ... Read more
Carmen Miranda got knocked down and kept going. Filming an appearance on The Jimmy Durante Show on August 4, 1955, the ambassadress of samba suddenly took a knee during a dance number, clearly in distress. Durante covered without missing a beat, and Miranda was back on her feet in a matter of moments and continued with what she did best: performing. By the next morning, she was dead from heart failure at age 46. This final performance in many ways exemplified the power of Carmen Miranda. The actress, singer, and dancer pursued a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
739g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826521125
SKU
V9780826521125
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99-15
About Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez is a professor of Portuguese and gender and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She is coeditor of Performing Brazil: Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Performing Arts.
Reviews for Creating Carmen Miranda: Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom
Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez has written a veritable tour de force that will stand as the definitive study of Carmen Miranda for many years to come.
Christopher Dunn, author of Brutality Garden: Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture
Christopher Dunn, author of Brutality Garden: Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture