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Indiana University Press
Language
English
Pages
353

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Subjects
Congresses, Criticism and interpretation, African Americans in motion pictures, African americans in motion pictures, Race films, Film criticism
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Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951)

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Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era
2016, Indiana University Press
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Cover of: Oscar Micheaux and His Circle
Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era
2016, Indiana University Press
in English
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Cover of: Oscar Micheaux and his circle
Oscar Micheaux and his circle: African-American filmmaking and race cinema of the silent era
2001, Indiana University Press
in English
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Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: I. OVERVIEWS
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
discussions with Pearl Bowser ARTHUR JAFA
3. From Shadows 'n Shufflin' to Spotlights and Cinema:
The Lafayette Players, 1915-1932 SISTER FRANCESCA THOMPSON
4. The African-American Press and Race Movies, 1909-1929
CHARLENE REGESTER
II. OSCAR MICHEAUX
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
III. MICHEAUX'S CONTEMPORARIES
11. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: The FlyingAce, 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 Scene
from The Scar of Shame (1929) PEARL BOWSER
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 K.
CREEKMUR, PEARL BOWSER, J. RONALD GREEN, 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 R. KLOTMAN
Notes
Bibliography COMPILED BY KRISTEN BARNES, JANE GAINES, FRED NEUMANN,
AND HANK OKAZAKI
About the Contributors
Credits
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes filmographies, bibliographical references (p. [329]-339) and index.
Chiefly papers presented at a conference held Jan. 1995, Yale University.

Published in
Bloomington
Genre
Congresses.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/0233/092
Library of Congress
PN1998.3.M494 O83 2001, PN1998.3.M494O83

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxx, 353 p. :
Number of pages
353

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3937610M
Internet Archive
oscarmicheauxhis0000unse
ISBN 10
0253339944, 025321484X
LCCN
2001001386
OCLC/WorldCat
46385904
Goodreads
1065202
538426

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