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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation ou sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Gabler, Neal (1950-....)
Titre(s) : Barbra Streisand [Texte imprimé] : redefining beauty, femininity, and power / Neal Gabler
Publication : New Haven, Conn. : Yale university press, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (viii-284 p.) : portrait, jaquette ill. ; 22 cm
Collection : Jewish lives
Lien à la collection : Jewish lives (New Haven)
Note(s) : Références bibliogr. Index
Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful ... talented performer of her
generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "one of the
natural wonders of the age." Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment-from a
popular vocalist to a first-rank Broadway star in Funny Girl to an Oscar-winning actress
to a producer and director. But she has also become a cultural icon who has transcended
show business. To achieve her success, Brooklyn-born Streisand had to overcome tremendous
odds, not the least of which was her Jewishness. Dismissed, insulted, even reviled
when she embarked on a show business career for acting too Jewish and looking too
Jewish, she brilliantly converted her Jewishness into a metaphor for outsiderness
that would eventually make her the avenger for anyone who felt marginalized and powerless.
Neal Gabler examines Streisand's life and career through this prism of otherness-a
Jew in a gentile world, a self-proclaimed homely girl in a world of glamour, a kooky
girl in a world of convention-and shows how central it was to Streisand's triumph
as one of the voices of her age
Sujet(s) : Streisand, Barbra (1942-....)
Streisand, Barbra (1942-....) -- Critique et interprétation
Féminité
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.092 (23e éd.) = Spectacles - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300210910 (rel). - ISBN 0300210914
EAN 9780300210910
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45064998d
Notice n° :
FRBNF45064998
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