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Creating Carmen Miranda: Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom (Performing Latin American and Caribbean Identities) Hardcover – October 20, 2016

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Carmen Miranda got knocked down and kept going. Filming an appearance on The Jimmy Durante Show on August 4, 1955, the "ambassadress of samba" suddenly took a knee during a dance number, clearly in distress. Durante covered without missing a beat, and Miranda was back on her feet in a matter of moments to continue with what she did best: performing. By the next morning, she was dead from heart failure at age 46.

This final performance in many ways exemplified the power of Carmen Miranda. The actress, singer, and dancer pursued a relentless mission to demonstrate the provocative theatrical force of her cultural roots in Brazil. Armed with bare-midriff dresses, platform shoes, and her iconic fruit-basket headdresses, Miranda stole the show in films like That Night in Rio and The Gang's All Here. For American film audiences, her life was an example of the exoticism of a mysterious, sensual South America. For Brazilian and Latin American audiences, she was an icon. For the gay community, she became a work of art personified and a symbol of courage and charisma.

In Creating Carmen Miranda, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez takes the reader through the myriad methods Miranda consciously used to shape her performance of race, gender, and camp culture, all to further her journey down the road to becoming a legend.
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  1. Part of series
    Performing Latin American and Caribbean Identities
  2. Print length
    304 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Vanderbilt University Press
  5. Publication date
    October 20, 2016
  6. Dimensions
    6.9 x 1 x 10.1 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    9780826521125
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0826521125
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"Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez has written a veritable tour de force that will stand as the definitive study of Carmen Miranda for many years to come."
—Christopher Dunn, author of Brutality Garden: Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture

About the Author

Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez is a professor of Portuguese and gender and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is coeditor of Performing Brazil: Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Performing Arts.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0826521126
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vanderbilt University Press (October 20, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780826521125
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0826521125
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.61 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.9 x 1 x 10.1 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

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Rochester Richie
5.0 out of 5 stars Really Smart, Really Readable
Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2021
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A great book if you love smart takes with real research. Despite the slick cover and the fact that it's a larger book, this is no coffee-table nothing burger. This book has so much in it to make you understand the 1930s-1950s, Carmen Miranda, the Good Neighbor Policy, and how stardom worked in the era of Classical Cinema. If you're at all interested, don't hesitate. Pull the trigger.
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Aubrey Hart
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent value and I know the author because she is ...
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2017
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Bought this book for class. Excellent value and I know the author because she is my professor. The language used is wonderful and it's very informative so far.
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Great book - scholarly but not unreadable.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Informative good read.
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2018
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Very well written and informative work of Carmen Miranda's history of performances and venues. However, I was looking more for a biography of her personal life which are not included in this book.
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Addison de Witt
1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 9, 2019
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If you are a fan of the inimitably brilliant Carmen Miranda you are likely to find this disappointing for a variety of reasons.
It is not a biography, nor a study of her work on stage, screen and radio, but mostly a pseudo-academic dissertation in the field of race and gender studies that sheds little additional light on her meteoric career and achievements. The author's research seems to have been concentrated mainly on press cuttings, though there is a (totally superfluous) chapter on Miranda imitations - even in cartoons!
The author's imperfect grasp of English leads to infelicities of style and language ("performativity", "spectaculize" "problematises") which make it awkward to read, and this is exacerbated by her tendency to lapse into pseudo-academic jargon - and this from a so-called university press!
The scholarly pose does not prevent her from making important factual mistakes: "The Gang's All Here" was the fifth
of Carmen's Fox musicals, not the fourth; it was directed by Busby Berkeley not produced by him; and Alice Faye's leading man in the film was the ineffectual James Ellison, not John Payne.
The illustrations are few, and none in colour. The one star is for the dust jacket.
Carmen was the creator of her own unique star personality and this volume is a poor tribute to her enormous talent and important legacy.
The best book on the star remains Cassio Barsante's lavish "Carmen Miranda" but this is in Portuguese.
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