Hardcover, 384 pages
English language
Published June 12, 2007 by Harper.
Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only
The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker
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Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith...igger-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.
Subjects
- Individual film directors, film-makers
- People of Color
- Blacks In Performing Arts
- Individual Directors And Producers
- Biography & Autobiography
- Biography / Autobiography
- Biography/Autobiography
- Entertainment & Performing Arts - Movie Directors
- Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Entertainment & Performing Arts - General
- Film & Video - Direction & Production
- African American motion picture producers and directors
- Biography
- Motion picture producers and directors
- United States