Star in The House of Mirrors: Contrasting Images of Carmen Miranda in Brazil and the United States

By contrasting the ambivalent interpretations and appropriations of Carmen Miranda’s image in both the United States and Brazil, this article examines the aesthetic and political implications of Miranda’s emergence as an international celebrity in the construction and dissemination of a certain Braz...

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Main Author: Bianca Freire-Medeiros
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Western Australia 2006-06-01
Series:Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies
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Online Access:https://www.archive.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/page/186589/Freire.pdf