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Oscar Micheaux & his circle : African-American filmmaking and race cinema of the silent era
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- Creator
- Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser, editors and curators
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First paperback edition
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016
- ©2001
- Physical Details
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- xxx, 353 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780253021359, 0253021359, 9780253021557, 0253021553
- OCLC
- ocn951991098
- Chiefly papers presented at a conference held Jan. 1995, Yale University.
- Reprint. Originally published by Indiana University Press, 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-339), filmography (pages 228-285) and index.
- 1. Black silence and the politics of representation / Clyde R. Taylor -- 2. The notion of treatment : black aesthetics and film: based on an interview with Peter Hessli and additional contributions from Pearl Bowser / Authur Jafa -- 3. From shadows 'n 'shufflin' to spotlights and cinema : the Lafayette Players, 1915-1932 / Francesca Thompson -- 4. The African-American press and race movies, 1909-1929 / Charlene Regester -- 5. Oscar Micheaux's Within our gates : the possibilities for alternative visions / Michele Wallace -- 6. Within our gates : from race melodrama to opportunity narrative / Jane Gaines -- 7. Oscar Micheaux's The symbol of the unconquered : text and context / Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence -- 8. To redream the dreams of white playwrights : reappropriation and resistance in Oscar Micheaux's Body and soul / Charles Musser -- 9. Black patriarch on the prairie: national identity and black manhood in the early novels of Oscar Micheaux / Jayna Brown -- 10. Telling white lies : Oscar Micheaux and Charles W. Chesnutt / Corey K. Creekmur -- 11. Planes, trains, and automobiles : the Flying Ace, the Norman Company, and the Micheaux connection / Phyllis R. Klotman -- 12. Colored Players Film Corporation: An alternative to Micheaux / Charles Musser ; Lost, then found: the wedding scence from The Scar of Shame (1929) / Pearl Bowswer -- 13. Richard D. Maurice and the Maurice Film Company / Pearl Bowser and Charles Musser -- 14. Cinematic foremothers : Zora Neale Hurston and Eloyce King Patrick Gist / Gloria J. Gibson -- Appendix A. The reemergence of Oscar Micheaux : a timeline and bibliographic essay / J. Ronald Green -- Appendix B. An Oscar Micheaux filmography : from the silents through his transition to sound. 1919-1931 / compiled by Charles Musser, Corey Creekmur, Pearl Bowser, Charlene Regester, and Louise Spence -- Appendix C. A Colored Players Film Corporation Filmography / compiled by Charles Musser -- Appendix D. Norman Film Manufacturing Company : production and theatrical release dates for all-black-cast films / compiled by Phyllis B. Klotman
Subjects
- Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
- African American motion picture producers and directors -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
- African American authors -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
- African Americans in motion pictures -- Congresses.
- Race in motion pictures -- Congresses.
- Race films -- Congresses.