Ziegfeld Girl Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema
- List Price: $26.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
- Publish date: 04/01/1999
Mizejewski traces the Ziegfeld Girl's connections to turn-of-the-century celebrity culture, black Broadway, the fashion industry, and the changing sexual and gender identities evident in mainstream entertainment during the Ziegfeld years. In addition, she emphasizes how crises of immigration and integration made the identity and whiteness of the American Girl an urgent issue on Broadway's revue stages during that era. Although her focus is on the showgirl as a "type", the analysis is intermingled with discussions of figures like Anna Held, Fanny Brice, and Bessie McCoy, the Yama Yama girl, as well as Ziegfeld himself. Finally, Mizejewski discusses the classic American films that have most vividly kept this showgirl alive in both popular and camp culture, including The Great Ziegfeld, Ziegfeld Girl, and the Busby Berkeley musicals that cloned Ziegfeld's showgirls for decades.
Ziegfeld Girl will appeal to scholars and studentsin American studies, popular culture, theater and performance studies, film history, gender studies, gay and lesbian studies, and social history.
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