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Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker - A Vivid Biography of the Visionary Who Pioneered African-American Cinema
Book Details
- Author
- Patrick McGilligan
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Direction & Production
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780060731403
- ISBN-10
- 0060731400
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ISBN: 0060731400
Author: McGilligan, Patrick
Condition: New
Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith-a bigger-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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Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker - A Vivid Biography of the Visionary Who Pioneered African-American Cinema
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