JOURNAL ARTICLE

Bette Davis Black and White by Julia A. Stern (review).

  • Published In: Modernism/Modernity, 2023, v. 30, n. 1. P. 213 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Fusco, Katherine 3 of 3

Abstract

In the creative and often surprising I Bette Davis Black and White i , Julia A. Stern takes up these two films along with I Jezebel, In This Our Life i , the made-for-TV I White Mama i , and others in order to explore the way Davis's career onand offscreen indexes the possibilities and limitations of cross-racial identification. The exploratory pose of this book is most exciting when applied to Stern's imaginative readings of Davis's films and suppositions about the interaction between film role and biographical actress. Stern's accounts of Davis's films range somewhere between allegorical argument (as in the case of the wonderful chapter on I Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Modernism/Modernity. 2023/01, Vol. 30, Issue 1, p213
  • Document Type:Interview
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:1071-6068
  • DOI:10.1353/mod.2023.a902611
  • Accession Number:165109664
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