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Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry by Mel Watkins: Used
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2005-10-18
- Pages
- 338
- ISBN
- 9780375423826
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375423826
ISBN-13
9780375423826
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45682715
Product Key Features
Book Title
Stepin Fetchit : the Life and Times of Lincoln Perry
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2005
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
23.9 Oz
Item Length
6.4 in
Item Width
9.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-043183
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Beautifully evokes the 'times' of Stepin Fetchit, providing a surprisingly fresh look at the complex history of blackness and the silver screen." -"Entertainment Weekly" "Commendable . . . thorough and authoritative."-"The New York Times" "Enthralling. . . .Watkins goes back . . . to the vaudeville road, the black-theater circuit, the tent shows, dance clubs, burlesque houses, carnivals, cabarets, race riots and lynch mobs. "Stepin Fetchit" is a shadow history of performance as survival." -"Harper's" "Fascinating. . . . An engrossing study of Perry." -"Essence" "From the Trade Paperback edition.", "Beautifully evokes the 'times' of Stepin Fetchit, providing a surprisingly fresh look at the complex history of blackness and the silver screen." Entertainment Weekly "Commendable . . . thorough and authoritative."The New York Times "Enthralling. . . .Watkins goes back . . . to the vaudeville road, the black-theater circuit, the tent shows, dance clubs, burlesque houses, carnivals, cabarets, race riots and lynch mobs.Stepin Fetchitis a shadow history of performance as survival." Harper's "Fascinating. . . . An engrossing study of Perry." Essence From the Trade Paperback edition., "Beautifully evokes the 'times' of Stepin Fetchit, providing a surprisingly fresh look at the complex history of blackness and the silver screen." Entertainment Weekly "Commendable . . . thorough and authoritative."The New York Times "Enthralling. . . .Watkins goes back . . . to the vaudeville road, the black-theater circuit, the tent shows, dance clubs, burlesque houses, carnivals, cabarets, race riots and lynch mobs. Stepin Fetchit is a shadow history of performance as survival." Harper's "Fascinating. . . . An engrossing study of Perry." Essence
Dewey Decimal
791.4302/8/092 B
Synopsis
The first African American movie star, Lincoln Perry, a.k.a. Stepin Fetchit, is an iconic figure in the history of American popular culture. In the late 1920s and '30s he was both renowned and reviled for his surrealistic portrayals of the era's most popular comic stereotype-the lazy, shiftless Negro. After his breakthrough role in the 1929 film Hearts in Dixie, Perry was hailed as "the best actor that the talking pictures have produced" by the critic Robert Benchley. Having run away from his Key West home in his early teens, Perry found success as a vaude- villian before making his way to California. The tall, lanky actor became the first millionaire black movie star when he appeared in a string of hit movies as the whiny, ever-perplexed, slow-talking comic sidekick. Perry was the highest paid and most popular black comedian in America during Hollywood's Golden Age, but his ongoing battles with movie executives, his rowdy offscreen behavior, and his extravagant spending kept him in gossip-column headlines. Perry's spendthrift ways and exorbitant lifestyle hastened his decline and, in 1947, having squandered or given away his fortune, he was forced to declare bankruptcy. In 1964 Perry was discovered in the charity ward of Chicago's Cook County Hospital; he later turned up in Muhammad Ali's entourage. In 1972 he unsuccessfully sued CBS for defamation because of a television program that ridiculed the type of characters he had portrayed. But his achievements were eventually acknowledged: in 1976 the Hollywood chapter of the NAACP gave him its Special Image Award for having opened the door for many a succeeding African American film star, and in 1978 he was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. In Stepin Fetchit, Mel Watkins has given us the first definitive, full-scale biography of an entertainment legend., In this richly detailed biography, Watkins follows the life and career of Lincoln "Stepin Fetchit" Perry, who was renowned--and reviled--for his portrayals of "Uncle Tom"-like characters in films during the 1920s and 1930s. illustrations.
LC Classification Number
PN2287.F425W38 2005
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- n***c (94)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseseller was communicative about my shipment, media mail took a while and tracking wasn't updated frequently, but seller communicated to me very quickly on status. the item came new and wrapped as described, though the packaging in it was packed wasn't sturdy and falling apart when it got to me.