Oscar Micheaux, the great and only : the life of America's first Black filmmaker / Patrick McGilligan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGilligan, Patrick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951.

Micheaux, Oscar.

Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

African American motion picture producers and directors.

United States.

African American motion picture producers and directors--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vii, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : HarperCollins, [2007]

Summary:

In a feat of historical investigation and vivid storytelling, a film biographer takes on one of the greatest--and most complex--figures in the history of American entertainment, Oscar Micheaux, the son of freed slaves who formed his own film production company after Hollywood failed to bid high enough for film rights to his stories.

Contents:

1884-1900: Metropolis, Illinois

1900-1904: black Metropolis

1904-1906: the rosebud

1906-1908: the one true woman

1908-1909: a new persona

1909-1912: hammer blows

1912-1914: dark days

1914-1918: the film bug

1919-1921: a tongue of fire

1921-1922: Harlem and Roanoke

1923-1924: the pale of the law

1925-1927: straws in the wind

1928-1931: a miracle rebound

1931-1935: Jews with money

1936-1940: reaping and sowing

1941-1947: the wind from nowhere

1947-1951: ahead of time.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [375]-390) and index.

Includes filmography: pages 352-366.

"Works by Oscar Micheaux": page [351].

ISBN:

0060731397

9780060731397

OCLC:

80918210