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Title
  • Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power / Neal Gabler.
Author
Gabler, Neal
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]

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viii, 284 pages : portrait; 22 cm
Summary
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.
Series Statement
  • Jewish Lives
Uniform Title
Jewish lives
Subject
  • Actresses > United States > Biography
  • Jewish actresses > United States > Biography
  • Jewish singers > United States > Biography
  • Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography
  • Singers > United States > Biography
  • Streisand, Barbra
Genre/Form
Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
An introduction: Shaynkeit -- Mieskeit -- Chutzpah -- Tsezingen Zikh -- Bine Aktrise -- Holivaud -- Supervuman -- Shaygetz -- Rediskovering Iugnt -- Macher -- Tsufridnkeit.
ISBN
  • 9780300210910
  • 0300210914
LCCN
^^2015957531
OCLC
930797868
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library