Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker
by McGilligan, Patrick
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060731397
- ISBN 13
- 9780060731397
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Synopsis
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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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124806
- Title
- Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker
- Author
- McGilligan, Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0060731397
- ISBN 13
- 9780060731397
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Film, TV, & Video / Film / History & Criticism; American / African American; Film, TV, & Video / Film / Directors;
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