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Writing Himself Into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences
By (author) Pearl Bowser, By (author) Louise Spence, Foreword by Thulani Davis
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Winner of the 2001 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Awards Winner of the Theatre Library Association Award Writing Himself Into History is an eagerly anticipated analysis of the career and artistry surrounding the legendary Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. With the exception of Spike Lee, Micheaux is the most famous-and prolific-African American film director. Between 1918 and 1948 he made more than 40 “race pictures,†movies made for and about African Americans. A man of immense creativity, he also wrote seven novels. Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence concentrate here on the first decade of Micheaux’s career, when Micheaux produced and directed more than twenty silent features and built a reputation as a controversial and maverick entrepreneur. Placing his work firmly within his social and cultural milieu, they also examine Micheaeux’s family and life. The authors provide a close textual analysis of his surviving films (including The Symbol of the Unconquered, Within Our Gates, and Body and Soul), and highlight the rivalry between studios, dilemmas of assimilation versus separatism, gender issues, and class. In Search of Oscar Micheaux also analyzes Micheaux’s career as a novelist in relation to his work as a filmmaker. This is a much-awaited book that is especially timely as interest in Micheaux’s work increases.
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Publisher | Rutgers University Press
Published date | 1 Aug 2000
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 280
Dimensions | 23 x 0 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 481g
ISBN | 978-0-8135-2803-8
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BISAC | performing arts / individual director (see also biography & autobiography / entertainment & performing arts)
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