Supreme Actresses

Author : Marcellas Reynolds
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781647003807

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Supreme Actresses by Marcellas Reynolds Pdf

A comprehensive collection of photographs, interviews, and profiles of the most influential Black actresses who have worked in film, television, and theater Foreword by Gabrielle Union Marcellas Reynolds, the author of Supreme Models, presents the first-ever art book dedicated to celebrating Black actresses and exploring their experiences in acting. Through stunning photographs, personal interviews, short biographies, and career milestones, Supreme Actresses chronicles the most influential Black actresses who have worked in film, television, and theater. From Hattie McDaniel, the first actress of color to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1939, to Dorothy Dandridge, the first actress of color to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1954. And from Ethel Waters, the first African American actress to be featured on an American sitcom in 1950, to Cicely Tyson, the first African American star of a TV drama in 1963. The performances by these talented actresses are ingrained into our memories. We experienced laughter, love, and loss with these women. But how did they begin their acting careers? Who were the first Black actresses who paved the way? What are their defining moments? What effects did racial prejudice have on their careers? Supreme Actresses remembers and celebrates the groundbreaking women who have been influencing culture for decades, reshaping the very standards of beauty in modern society.

Author : Marcellas Reynolds
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781683356622

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Supreme Models by Marcellas Reynolds Pdf

“This coffee-table book is the first-ever collection of works devoted to celebrating black models. Fashion devotees will find glorious images of supers such as Iman, Tyra Banks, Naomi Campbell, Joan Smalls, and Adwoa Aboah alongside interviews and personal essays.” —Vogue Filled with revealing essays, interviews, and stunning photographs, Supreme Models pays tribute to black models past and present: from the first to be featured in catalogs and on magazine covers, like Iman, Donyale Luna, and Beverly Johnson, to the supermodels who reigned in the nineties—Tyra Banks, Naomi Campbell, and Veronica Webb. The book also observes the newest generation of models—Adut Akech, Jourdan Dunn, and Joan Smalls—who are shaking up the fashion industry by speaking out about racial prejudice while becoming social media sensations. Written by celebrity fashion stylist and journalist Marcellas Reynolds, Supreme Models features more than 70 women from the last 75 years. Reynolds writes, “I hope that everyone who reads this book learns something about the models included within—and more about the business of fashion and modeling. But what I want most is for Supreme Models to be a source for the little boys, or girls, who like my childhood self, need to see themselves represented in a positive light.” The book, filled with gorgeous photographs of the women, details their most memorable campaigns, covers, editorials, and runway shows. Black models have been influencing fashion and pop culture for decades, reshaping beauty standards and boundaries. Supreme Models is a celebration of their monumental impact.

Author : Ziad Elmarsafy
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 3823355368

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The Histrionic Sensibility by Ziad Elmarsafy Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : English periodicals
ISBN : UCAL:B3012543

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Temple Bar by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sandra Richards
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993-06-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781349099306

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Rise of the English Actress by Sandra Richards Pdf

An account of the English actress's view of her own rise up to social and professional prominence from 1600 to the present. Examining the actress's experience as distinct from the actor's, this book charts her influence on each age's views of women's nature and their role in society.

Author : Mindy Aloff
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781598535860

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Dance in America: A Reader's Anthology by Mindy Aloff Pdf

From ballet and Balanchine to tap and swing, a treasury of unforgettable writing about the beauty and magic of American dance. From the beginning, American dance has been an exciting fusion of many disparate influences, with European traditions of ballet and social dancing encountering Native American rituals and African American improvisations to create something new and extraordinary. In this landmark collection, dance critic Mindy Aloff brings together an astonishing array of writers—dancers and dance creators, impresarios and critics, and enthusiastic literary observers—to tell the remarkable story of the artistry, innovation, and sheer joy of a great American art form. Here is dance in its many varieties and locales: from tap and swing to ballet and modern dance, from Five Points to Radio City Music Hall, and from the Lindy Hop to Michael Jackson’s Moonwalk. With 100 selections spanning three centuries, this is the biggest and best anthology on American dance ever published. Here are the most acclaimed dance critics, including Edwin Denby, Joan Acocella, Lincoln Kirstein, Jill Johnston, and Clive Barnes; the most inventive and influential choreographers and dancers, among them George Balanchine, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Allegra Kent, and Mikhail Baryshnikov; and a dazzling roster of literary figures, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Hart Crane, Edmund Wilson, Langston Hughes, and Susan Sontag. Here too are rare and hard-to-find texts, several previously unpublished, among them Jerome Robbins’s reflections on the secret of choreography and an inspiring commencement address from Mark Morris. Brilliant profiles of unforgettable performers—Stuart Hodes on Martha Graham; John Updike on Gene Kelly; Alastair Macaulay on Michael Jackson—join incisive, often deeply personal pieces—Zora Neale Hurston on hoodoo ritual; Arlene Croce on dance in film; Yehuda Hyman on Hasidic dances—to form a one-of-kind reading experience every dance lover will cherish. A twelve-page color insert presents iconic photographs of key figures from Isadora Duncan to Michael Jackson.

Author : Robert Gottlieb
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 1362 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780375421228

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Reading Dance by Robert Gottlieb Pdf

Robert Gottlieb’s immense sampling of the dance literature–by far the largest such project ever attempted–is both inclusive, to the extent that inclusivity is possible when dealing with so vast a field, and personal: the result of decades of reading. It limits itself of material within the experience of today’s general readers, avoiding, for instance, academic historical writing and treatises on technique, its earliest subjects are those nineteenth-century works and choreographers that still resonate with dance lovers today: Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake; Bournonville and Petipa. And, as Gottlieb writes in his introduction, “The twentieth century focuses to a large extent on the achievements and personalities that dominated it–from Pavlova and Nijinsky and Diaghilev to Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham, from Ashton and Balanchine and Robbins to Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor and Twyla Tharp, from Fonteyn and Farrell and Gelsey Kirkland (“the Judy Garland of Ballet”) to Nureyev and Baryshnikov and Astaire–as well as the critical and reportorial voices, past and present, that carry the most conviction.” In structuring his anthology, Gottlieb explains, he has “tried to help the reader along by arranging its two hundred-plus entries into a coherent groups.” Apart from the sections on major personalities and important critics, there are sections devoted to interviews (Tamara Toumanova, Antoinette Sibley, Mark Morris); profiles (Lincoln Kirstein, Bob Fosse, Olga Spessivtseva); teachers; accounts of the birth of important works from Petrouchka to Apollo to Push Comes to Shove; and the movies (from Arlene Croce and Alastair Macauley on Fred Astaire to director Michael Powell on the making of The Red Shoes). Here are the voices of Cecil Beaton and Irene Castle, Ninette de Valois and Bronislava Nijinska, Maya Plisetskaya and Allegra Kent, Serge Lifar and José Limón, Alicia Markova and Natalia Makarova, Ruth St. Denis and Michel Fokine, Susan Sontag and Jean Renoir. Plus a group of obscure, even eccentric extras, including an account of Pavlova going shopping in London and recipes from Tanaquil LeClerq’s cookbook.” With its huge range of content accompanied by the anthologist’s incisive running commentary, Reading Dance will be a source of pleasure and instruction for anyone who loves dance.

Author : Robert Gottlieb
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781429961066

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Lives and Letters by Robert Gottlieb Pdf

The product of a lifetime immersed in the literary, performing arts, and entertainment worlds, Lives and Letters spotlights the work, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of a vast array of celebrated writers and performers in film, theater, and dance, and some of the more curious iconic public figures of our times. From the world of literature, Charles Dickens, James Thurber, Judith Krantz, John Steinbeck, and Rudyard Kipling; the controversies surrounding Bruno Bettelheim and Elia Kazan; and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and her editor, Maxwell Perkins. From dance and theater, Isadora Duncan and Margot Fonteyn, Serge Diaghilev and George Balanchine, Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse. In Hollywood, Bing Crosby and Judy Garland, Douglas Fairbanks and Lillian Gish, Tallulah Bankhead and Katharine Hepburn, Mae West and Anna May Wong. In New York, Diana Vreeland, the Trumps, and Gottlieb's own take on the contretemps that followed his replacing William Shawn at The New Yorker. And so much more . . .

Author : Dr. Doran (John)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Actors
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118165146

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In and about Drury Lane by Dr. Doran (John) Pdf

Author : John Doran
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385467569

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In and About Drury Lane, and Other Papers, Reprinted from the Pages of the 'Temple Bar' Magazine by John Doran Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author : EduGorilla Prep Experts
Publisher : EduGorilla Community Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789355564337

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UP Police Head Operator Exam Preparation 2024 (English Edition) - 10 Practice Mock Tests (2000 Solved MCQs) by EduGorilla Prep Experts Pdf

• Best Selling Book in English Edition for UP Police Head Operator Exam with objective-type questions as per the latest syllabus given by the UPPRPB. • UP Police Head Operator Exam Preparation Kit comes with 10 Practice Tests with the best quality content. • Increase your chances of selection by 16X. • UP Police Head Operator Exam Prep Kit comes with well-structured and 100% detailed solutions for all the questions. • Clear exam with good grades using thoroughly Researched Content by experts.

Author : Dr. Doran
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387300413

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In and About Drury Lane; And Other Papers, In Two Volumes, Reprinted from the pages of the 'Temple Bar' Magazine by Dr. Doran Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : John Stokes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521843006

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The French Actress and Her English Audience by John Stokes Pdf

A detailed study of how French actresses were received by English audiences.

Author : EduGorilla Prep Experts
Publisher : EduGorilla Community Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789355564641

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UP Police Assistant Operator Exam Preparation Book 2024 (English Edition) - 10 Practice Mock Tests (2000 Solved MCQs) with Free Access to Online Tests by EduGorilla Prep Experts Pdf

• Best Selling Book in English Edition for UP Police Assistant Operator Exam with objective-type questions as per the latest syllabus given by the Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment & Promotion Board. • UP Police Assistant Operator Exam Preparation Kit comes with 10 Practice Tests with the best quality content. • Increase your chances of selection by 16X. • UP Police Assistant Operator Exam Prep Kit comes with well-structured and 100% detailed solutions for all the questions. • Clear exam with good grades using thoroughly Researched Content by experts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : IND:30000068442684

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USSR Information Bulletin by Anonim Pdf