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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Green, T[Herausgeber]

Titel

Presenting Oprah Winfrey, Her Films, and African American Literature [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2013

Ort / Verlag

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Cover; Haf-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedicated; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One The Black Matriarch's Quest for Love: Oprah Winfrey as Sofia in The Color Purple; Two Oprah Winfrey and the Trauma Drama: "What's So Good About Feeling Bad?"; Three Creating a Legacy of Disconnection: Colorism and Classism in Oprah Winfrey Presents: The Wedding; Four Wanderlust, Hysteria, and Insurrection: (Re)presenting the "Beloved" Sweet Home Men; Five "Let the Music Play": Music, Meaning, and Method in Oprah Winfrey Presents: Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Six Blues, Hope, and Disturbing Images: A Comparison of Sapphire's Push and the Film PreciousAdditional References; Index
• Oprah Winfrey has long promoted black issues by being involved as a producer or actor in the adaptation of works by African American writers for film. This volume evaluates Winfrey's involvement in the visual interpretation of African American literary texts using film, music, black masculinity, black feminist, and cultural theory.
• English