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Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only (PB) (2016)

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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.


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Author:
Patrick McGilligan
ISBN 10:
0060731400
Pages:
432
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Publication Date:
March 28, 2016
Binding:
Paperback
Weight:
1.18lbs

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