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Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker

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Availability:In StockContributor:Patrick McGilliganPublish date:2016-03-28Pages:432
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060731403ISBN-10:60731400UPC:9780060731403Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Entertainment & Performing Arts, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, FilmBook Topic:Direction & ProductionSize:8.97 x 6.06 x 1.17 inchesWeight:1.1817Product ID:SCTVTCP0XB

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060731403ISBN-10:60731400UPC:9780060731403Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Entertainment & Performing Arts, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, FilmBook Topic:Direction & ProductionSize:8.97 x 6.06 x 1.17 inchesWeight:1.1817Product ID:SCTVTCP0XB
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Patrick McGilligan is the author of Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light; Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast; and George Cukor: A Double Life; and books on the lives of directors Nicholas Ray, Robert Altman, and Oscar Micheaux, and actors James Cagney, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood. He also edited the acclaimed five-volume Backstory series of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters and (with Paul Buhle), the definitive Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, not far from Kenosha, where Orson Welles was born.

Publisher: Harper Perennial

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