Go Hunt Me by Kelly deVos (review) Berglind, Natalie
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books,
06/2022, Letnik:
75, Številka:
10
Journal Article, Book Review
Stealing the show Petty, Miriam J
2016., 20160308, 2016, 2016-03-08
eBook
"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 literature on the movies"--Provided by publisher
Published to coincide with the centenary of the founding of the Actors' Equity Association in 1913, Weavers of Dreams, Unite! explores the history of actors' unionism in the United States from the ...late nineteenth century to the onset of the Great Depression. Drawing upon hitherto untapped archival resources in New York and Los Angeles, Sean P. Holmes documents how American stage actors used trade unionism to construct for themselves an occupational identity that foregrounded both their artistry and their respectability. In the process, he paints a vivid picture of life on the theatrical shop floor in an era in which economic, cultural, and technological changes were transforming the nature of acting as work. The engaging study offers important insights into the nature of cultural production in the early twentieth century, the role of class in the construction of cultural hierarchy, and the special problems that unionization posed for workers in the commercial entertainment industry.
'Mrs Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?' These famous lines from 'The Graduate' would forever link Anne Bancroft (1931-2005) to the groundbreaking film and confirm her status as a ...movie icon. Along with her portrayal of Annie Sullivan in the stage and film drama 'The Miracle Worker', this role was a highlight of a career that spanned a half-century and brought Bancroft an Oscar, two Tonys, and two Emmy awards. In the first biography to cover the entire scope of Bancroft's life and career, Douglass K. Daniel brings together interviews with dozens of her friends and colleagues, family photos, and material from film and theatre archives to present a portrait of an artist who raised the standards of acting for all those who followed. Daniel reveals how, from a young age, Bancroft was committed to challenging herself and strengthening her craft.
Haslea ostrearia, a cosmopolitan marine pennate diatom, produces a characteristic blue pigment called marennine that causes the greening of filter-feeding organisms, such as oysters. Previous studies ...evidenced various biological activities of purified marennine extract, such as antibacterial, antioxidant and antiproliferative effects. These effects could be beneficial to human health. However, the specific biological activity of marennine remains to be characterized, especially regarding primary cultures of mammals. In the present study, we aimed to determine in vitro the effects of a purified extract of marennine on neuroinflammatory and cell migratory processes. These effects were assessed at non-cytotoxic concentrations of 10 and 50μg/mL on primary cultures of neuroglial cells. Marennine strongly interacts with neuroinflammatory processes in the immunocompetent cells of the central nervous system, represented by astrocytes and microglial cells. An anti-migratory activity based on a neurospheres migration assay has also been observed. These results encourage further study of Haslea blue pigment effects, particularly the identification of molecular and cellular targets affected by marennine, and strengthen previous studies suggesting that marennine has bioactivities which could be beneficial for human health applications.
How the suspect sexuality of actors and actresses shaped
early modern debates about gender and sexual identity From
the Restoration through the eighteenth century, the sexuality of
actors and ...actresses was written about in ways that stirred the
public imagination. Actors were frequently suspected of
heterosexual promiscuity or labeled effeminate or even as
"sodomites," and actresses were often viewed as prostitutes or
sexually ambivalent victims of their profession. Kristina Straub
argues that this depiction of players greatly shaped public debates
about what made women feminine and men masculine. Considering a
wide range of literature by or about players-pamphlets, newspaper
reports, theatrical histories, and biographies as well as the
public correspondence between Alexander Pope and the famed actor
Colley Cibber-she examines the formation of gender roles and sexual
identities during a period crucial to modern thinking on these
issues. Drawing from feminist-materialist and gay and lesbian
theories and historiographies, Sexual Suspects analyzes
the complex development of spectacle and spectatorship as gendered
concepts. She reveals how national, racial, and class differences
contributed to the subjection of players as professional spectacles
and how images of race, class, and gender combined to create
divisions between "normal" and "deviant" sexuality.
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