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

Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith--a bigger-than-life American folk hero...
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Author: Patrick McGilligan
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Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker by McGilligan, Patrick

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

BD$30.43

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

BD$30.43
Author: Patrick McGilligan
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Patrick McGilligan
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 06/17/2008
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.06w x 1.17d
ISBN: 9780060731403

About the Author
McGilligan, Patrick: -

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.

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