J. Ronald Green

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The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux

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Produktbeschreibung

One of the most original and successful filmmakers, Oscar Micheaux was born into a rural, working-class, African-American family in mid-America in 1884. Micheaux's work was founded upon the concern for class mobility, or uplift, for African Americans. This book is a critical assessment of Micheaux's accomplishment in the art of cinema.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 618g
• ISBN-13: 9780253337535
• ISBN-10: 0253337534
• Artikelnr.: 21613578

Autorenporträt

J. Ronald Green is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of History of Art at Ohio State University. His writings on Micheaux and other topics have appeared in journals such as Film Quarterly, Griffithiana, Black Film Review, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Journal of Film and Video, Cinema Journal, Afterimage, and Aperture, and in various anthologies, including Diawara's Black American Cinema.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Micheaux v. Griffith
2. Micheaux's Class Position
3. Twoness and Micheaux's Style
4. Negative Images
5. The Middle Path
6. Middle?Class Cinema
7. White Financing
8. Stereotype and Caricature
9. Revising Caricature
10. Interrogating Caricature as Entertainment
11. Interrogating False Uplift
12. Passing and Film Style
13. Racial Loyalty
14. Micheaux and Cinema Today
Appendix One: On Class and the Classical
Appendix Two: Filmography
Appendix Three: Selections from the Black Press
Appendix Four: Bibliography
Notes
Index