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001 2001001386
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008 010302s2001 inua bq 101 0deng
010 $a 2001001386
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040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aPN1998.3.M494$bO83 2001
082 00 $a791.43/0233/092$221
245 00 $aOscar Micheaux and his circle :$bAfrican-American filmmaking and race cinema of the silent era /$cPearl Bowser, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser, editors and curators.
260 $aBloomington :$bIndiana University Press,$cc2001.
300 $axxx, 353 p. :$bill. ;$c29 cm.
500 $aChiefly papers presented at a conference held Jan. 1995, Yale University.
504 $aIncludes filmographies, bibliographical references (p. [329]-339) and index.
505 8 $aMachine 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.
600 10 $aMicheaux, Oscar,$d1884-1951$xCriticism and interpretation$vCongresses.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in motion pictures$vCongresses.
650 0 $aRace films$vCongresses.
700 1 $aBowser, Pearl,$d1931-
700 1 $aGaines, Jane,$d1946-
700 1 $aMusser, Charles.
856 4 $3Table of Contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/2001001386.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1401/2001001386-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1401/2001001386-d.html