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New York: HarperCollins, 2007. Cloth, vii, 402 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, unmarked. Light foxing/expected browning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, lightly soiled on the back flap, protected in a mylar cover. "Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith: a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story is nearly forgotten today. Now, in a feat of historical investigation and vivid storytelling, one of our greatest film biographers takes on one of the most talented and complex figures in the history of American entertainment. The son of freed slaves, Micheaux grew up in Metropolis, Illinois, then roamed America as a Pullman porter before making his first mark as a homesteader in South Dakota. Disaster and defeat there led him to forge a career publishing a successful series of autobiographical novels. Ever the entrepreneur, when Hollywood failed to bid high enough for film rights to his stories, he answered by…
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Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker Hardcover - 2007 - 1st Edition
by Patrick McGilligan
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Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith...igger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story has been nearly forgotten today. The son of freed slaves, he roamed America as a Pullman porter before making his first mark as a homesteader in South Dakota — and going on from there to become the king of the "race cinema" industry, producing and/or directing nearly forty films during a time of Jim Crow segregation when African-American artists were not welcome in Hollywood.In this groundbreaking new biography, award-winning film historian Patrick McGilligan offers a vivid and fascinating portrait of a true pioneer of American culture who was equal parts visionary, hustler, huckster, innovator, and raffish Barnum-like showman — and the first great African-American filmmaker.
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- Title Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker
- Author Patrick McGilligan
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper, New York, NY
- Date 2007
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780060731397 / 0060731397
- Weight 1.48 lbs (0.67 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.32 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 3.35 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Motion picture producers and directors -, Micheaux, Oscar
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007060735
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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