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Paul Robeson : film pioneer / Scott Allen Nollen.
Van Pelt Library E185.97.R63 N65 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nollen, Scott Allen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976.
- Robeson, Paul.
- African Americans--Biography.
- African Americans.
- African American actors--Biography.
- African American actors.
- African American singers--Biography.
- African American singers.
- Political activists--United States--Biography.
- Political activists.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2010]
- Summary:
- "This is the first book-length study of African American Renaissance man Paul Robeson (1898-1976). Singer, actor, author, lawyer, athlete, pacifist and civil rights activist, Robeson was also the first African American to receive top billing in motion pictures. Two appendices cover Robeson's film work as offscreen narrator and singer and his many stage appearances"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Great things to come
- Black preacher's ambition : Body and soul (1925)
- The growth of an idea : Borderline (1930)
- Bloomin' majesty : The emperor Jones (1933)
- Imperial palaver : Sanders of the river (1935)
- Whale on the Mississippi : Show boat (1936)
- Singing king of Casanga : The song of freedom (1936)
- Down in the ditch : Big fella (1937)
- Enough here for all : King Solomon's mines (1937)
- Greener pastures : Jericho (1937)
- A people's film : The proud valley (1940)
- We were brothers : Native land (1942)
- Shantytown shake-up : Tales of Manhattan (1942)
- Deep river.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780786435203
- 0786435208
- OCLC:
- 656213255
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