Oscar Micheaux

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

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de Patrick McGilligan

Type: Biographies
Sujet: Director > Oscar Micheaux
Mots Clés: Oscar Micheaux, director, African Americans
Année d'édition: 2008
Editeur: Harper Perennial
Langue: anglais

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Paperback • 402 pages
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm)

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978-0-06-073140-3

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Description de l'ouvrage:
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.

À propos de l'auteur :
Patrick McGilligan is the author of Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light; Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast; George Cukor: A Double Life; the life stories of the directors Nicholas Ray, Robert Altman, and Oscar Micheaux; and the biographies of the actors James Cagney, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood. He also edited the five-volume Backstory series of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters and (with Paul Buhle) Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Revue de Presse:
"McGilligan deftly assembles the sterling research of scholars of early black filmmaking into an enormously moving and compelling account of a quixotic life defined by arduous toil and perpetual optimism." — DGA Quarterly

"a well researched, passionately felt and endlessly fascinating look at a singular American life." — Kirkus Reviews

"McGilligan has made this incredible, half-forgotten life newly available to us all." — The Guardian

"An enormously moving and compelling account of a quixotic life defined by arduous toil and perpetual optimism." — Directors Guild Association Quarterly

McGilligan does a fine job of reaffirming Micheaux’s significance beyond the appreciation of cineastes. — Publishers Weekly

"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

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

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