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Best Actress: The History of Oscar-Winning Women
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Best Actress: The History of Oscar-Winning Women Hardcover - 2020

by Stephen Tapert

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Showcasing a dazzling collection of 200 photographs, many of which have never before been seen, this lavishly illustrated book offers a captivating historical, social, and political examination of the first 75 women--from Janet Gaynor to Emma Stone--to have won the coveted and legendary Academy Award for Best Actress.t Actress.

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New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. 1st ed. Hardcover. VG+++/VG+++, not clipped.. Foreword by Roxane Gay. Pale grey boards w/ gilt lettering on spine. Clean, solid, tight, unmarked. Profusely illustrated in color & b/w photos. Oversized and heavy weight; extra shipping charges apply. 12 1/4 x 9 1/4
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  • Title Best Actress: The History of Oscar-Winning Women
  • Author Stephen Tapert
  • Illustrator Foreword by Roxane Gay
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st ed
  • Condition Used - VG+++
  • Pages 516
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ
  • Date 2020
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G2100318
  • ISBN 9781978808058 / 1978808054
  • Weight 4.85 lbs (2.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 12.2 x 9.3 x 1.4 in (30.99 x 23.62 x 3.56 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Motion picture actors and actresses, Academy Awards (Motion pictures)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019006604
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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About the author

STEPHEN TAPERT earned his M.A. from the University of Chicago. He worked for eight years at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, where, as a museum researcher, he provided foundational work for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. He subsequently curated an exhibition on the Best Actress Oscar winners at the Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin, Italy, and at the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin, Germany. He currently teaches film studies at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles.

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