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Stepin Fetchit : The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry by Mel Watkins (2006, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-101400096766

ISBN-139781400096763

eBay Product ID (ePID)52758675

Product Key Features

Book TitleStepin Fetchit : the Life and Times of Lincoln Perry

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2006

TopicCultural Heritage, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Entertainment & Performing Arts

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorMel Watkins

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight11.9 Oz

Item Length8.1 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

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, "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", "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, "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, "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 Decimal791.4302/8/092 B

SynopsisIn the late 1920s and '30s Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, was both renowned and reviled for his surrealistic portrayals of the era's most popular comic stereotype-the lazy, shiftless Negro. Perry was hailed by critic Robert Benchley as "the best actor that the talking movies have produced," and Mel Watkins's meticulously researched and sensitive biography reveals the paradoxes of this pioneering actor's life, from Perry's tremendous popularity to his money troubles and rowdy offscreen antics. As later generations come to recognize Perry's prodigious talent and achievements, in "Stepin Fetchit," Mel Watkins brilliantly and definitively illuminates the life and times of a legendary figure in American entertainment., Watkins' meticulously researched and sensitive biography reveals the paradoxes of this pioneering actor's life, from Perry's tremendous popularity to his money troubles and rowdy offscreen antics., In the late 1920s and '30s Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, was both renowned and reviled for his surrealistic portrayals of the era's most popular comic stereotype-the lazy, shiftless Negro. Perry was hailed by critic Robert Benchley as "the best actor that the talking movies have produced," and Mel Watkins's meticulously researched and sensitive biography reveals the paradoxes of this pioneering actor's life, from Perry's tremendous popularity to his money troubles and rowdy offscreen antics. As later generations come to recognize Perry's prodigious talent and achievements, in Stepin Fetchit, Mel Watkins brilliantly and definitively illuminates the life and times of a legendary figure in American entertainment., In the late 1920s and '30s Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, was both renowned and reviled for his surrealistic portrayals of the era's most popular comic stereotypethe lazy, shiftless Negro. Perry was hailed by critic Robert Benchley as "the best actor that the talking movies have produced," and Mel Watkins's meticulously researched and sensitive biography reveals the paradoxes of this pioneering actor's life, from Perry's tremendous popularity to his money troubles and rowdy offscreen antics. As later generations come to recognize Perry's prodigious talent and achievements, in Stepin Fetchit, Mel Watkins brilliantly and definitively illuminates the life and times of a legendary figure in American entertainment.