Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood, by Bogle - SIGNED
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Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood, by Bogle - SIGNED
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- Release Year
- 2005
- Signed By
- Donald Bogle
- Signed
- Yes
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780345454188
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0345454189
ISBN-13
9780345454188
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30900283
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams : the Story of Black Hollywood
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Film / General, Africa / General, Popular Culture, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Performing Arts, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
24.9 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-054781
Reviews
"Mr. Bogle continues to be our most noted black-cinema historian." SPIKE LEE Praise for Dorothy Dandridge "An ambitious, rigorously researched account of the long-ignored film star and chanteuse . . . [Bogle] has fashioned a resonant history of a bygone era in Hollywood and passionately documented the contribution of one of its most dazzling and complex performers." The New York Times Book Review "Donald Bogle, that pioneering safekeeper of the history of blacks in film, has completed the first definitive biography of Dandridge. Bogle's epic biography depicts all the rich details of Dandridge's life." Vogue Praise for Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks "Bogle is passionate and good-humored. His book is valuable as a film reference work and social document." GENE SISKEL "Far more inclusive and informative than previous books on the subject." The New York Times
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
791.4302/8/092396073
Synopsis
Spanning sixty vibrant years, Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams is a deliciously entertaining history of Black Hollywood. Through interviews and the personal recollections of film luminaries, noted film historian Donald Bogle reveals a place both mythic and real, distinct from the studio-system-dominated Tinseltown-a world unto itself, with unique rules, institutions, and personalities. Bogle tells the story of such legends as Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Hattie McDaniel, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, and Sammy Davis Jr., and introduces readers to the stories of lesser-known artists, such as the scandal-plagued heartthrob James Edwards and the enigmatic Madame Sul-Te-Wan. Bogle also shows us other members of the black film community-from the white stars' black servants to gossip columnists and hairstylists-and the world that grew up around them along Central Avenue, the fabled Harlem of the West. Along the way, Bogle re-creates a vanished time that left an indelible mark on Hollywood-and on all of America. Book jacket., In Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle tellsfor the first timethe story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning sixty years, this deliciously entertaining history uncovers the audacious manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them. Through interviews and the personal recollections of Hollywood luminaries, Bogle pieces together a remarkable history that remains largely obscure to this day. We discover that Black Hollywood was a place distinct from the studio-system-dominated Tinseltowna world unto itself, with unique rules and social hierarchy. It had its own talent scouts and media, its own watering holes, elegant hotels, and fashionable nightspots, and of course its own glamorous and brilliant personalities. Along with famous actors including Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Hattie McDaniel (whose home was among Hollywood's most exquisite), and, later, the stunningly beautiful Lena Horne and the fabulously gifted Sammy Davis, Jr., we meet the likes of heartthrob James Edwards, whose promising career was derailed by whispers of an affair with Lana Turner, and the mysterious Madame Sul-Te-Wan, who shared a close lifelong friendship with pioneering director D. W. Griffith. But Bogle also looks at other members of the black communityfrom the white stars' black servants, who had their own money and prestige, to gossip columnists, hairstylists, and architectsand at the world that grew up around them along Central Avenue, the Harlem of the West. In the tradition of Hortense Powdermaker's classic Hollywood: The Dream Factory and Neal Gabler's An Empire of Their Own, in Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle re-creates a vanished world that left an indelible mark on Hollywoodand on all of America. From the Hardcover edition.
LC Classification Number
PN1995.9.N4B59 2005
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