HBO’s Black Women Artist Biopics: The Josephine Baker Story and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

This paper analyses cable television HBO’s 1990s biopics based on the life stories of the African American dancer and singer Josephine Baker (The Josephine Baker Story, Brian Gibson, 1991) and the actress Dorothy Dandridge (Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Martha Coolidge, 1999), demonstrating that th...

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Main Author: Hélène Charlery
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses universitaires de Rennes 2016-12-01
Series:Revue LISA
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/8993
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