Oscar Micheaux and His Circle

African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era
Herausgeber: Musser, Charles; Bowser, Pearl; Gaines, Jane Marie

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Produktbeschreibung

This thoroughly readable collection is a superb reference work lavishly illustrated with rare photographs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 278mm x 214mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 1244g
• ISBN-13: 9780253021359
• ISBN-10: 0253021359
• Artikelnr.: 43747206

Autorenporträt

Pearl Bowser is founder and director of African Diaspora Images, a collection of historical and contemporary African American and African films and memorabilia. She is author (with Louise Spence) of Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences. Jane Gaines is Professor of Film at Columbia University and the author of two award-winning books, Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law, and Fire and Desire: Mixed Race Movies in the Silent Era. Charles Musser is Professor of American Studies and Film Studies at Yale University. His books include The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 and Edison Motion Pictures, 1890-1900: An Annotated Filmography.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
The Touring Package: Programs and Credits
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Oscar Micheaux and Race Movies of the Silent Period / Pearl
Bowser, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser
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 contributions from Pearl Bowser,
A. J. Jafa
3. From Shadows 'n Shufflin' to Spotlights and Cinema: The Lafayette
Players, 1915-1932 / Sr. 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
Creekmur
III. Micheaux's Contemporaries
11. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: The Flying Ace, the Norman Company,
and the Micheaux Connection / Phyllis 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
Creekmur, Pearl Bowser, Charlene Regester, Ron Green, 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 Klotman
Notes
Bibliography / Compiled by Kristen Barnes, Jane Gaines, Fred Neumann, and
Hank Okazaki
About the Contributors
Credits
Index