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

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Traces the life and career of a pioneering director from the genre of African-American cinema, discussing his childhood in the homesteading communities of South Dakota, his direction of numerous silent and sound films at a time before black-produced movies could be shown in white theaters, and his lesser-known influence on American black culture. 25,000 first printing.

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"That rarity of rarities among Hollywood biographies: a full-bodied study of a man and his metier, equally insightful about the life and the art."

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"a lively, readable tale" -- New York Times Book Review

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Praise for Alfred Hitchcock: "Magnificently exhaustive, absolutely definitive, marvelously magesterial..."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"In the skilled hands of Patrick McGilligan, Oscar Micheaux's life story bristles and takes flight."--Pearl Bowser, author of Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films and His Audiences

Praise for Alfred Hitchcock: "A hugely satisfying portrait of the artist."--Entertainment Weekly

Praise for Alfred Hitchcock: "Staggering... illuminating... The Master of Suspense finally gets and authoritative life."--Kirkus Reviews (starred)
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Masterful film biographer Patrick McGilligan brings to life the 20th century's greatest unknown director: The complex visionary who pioneered African American cinema, yet died penniless and forgotten. Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith: a bigger-than-life American folk hero. Early on he was inspired by Jack London to write fiction, and began an entrepreneurial career successfully publishing a series of his own autobiographical novels. In 1919, he formed his own film production company after Hollywood failed to bid high enough for film rights to his stories, he went on to produce or direct twenty-two silent and fifteen sound films in his lifetime. Now, in a feat of historical investigation and vivid storytelling, one of our greatest film biographers takes on one of the greatest and most complex figures in the history of American entertainment. In this searching exploration, McGilligan tracks down long-lost financial records, unpublished letters, and unmarked pauper's graves, pinpointing his birthplace, his tangled personal life, the circumstances of his tragic death.

The result is an epic that bridges a fascinating period in American history, and offers lessons for anyone who would understand the role of black America in forming the culture of our time.

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  • PublisherReganBooks,U.S.
  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 0060731397
  • ISBN 13 9780060731397
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages384
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