‘It's all the way you look at it, you know’: reading Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson's film career
This paper engages with a major paradox in African American tap dancer Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson's film image – namely, its concurrent adherences to and contestations of dehumanising racial iconography – to reveal the complex and often ambivalent ways in which identity is staged and enacted. Al...
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Routledge
2012
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30953/ |