Pearl Bowser, Louise Spence

Writing Himself Into History

Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences

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Produktbeschreibung

Legendary black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux made more than 40 ""race pictures"" - films for and about African Americans - and also penned seven novels. Focusing on the first decade of his career, this text analyzes both his films and novels and places his work within its social and cultural context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780813528038
• ISBN-10: 0813528038
• Artikelnr.: 22020806

Autorenporträt

PEARL BOWSER, founder of the African Diaspora Images collection, specializes in African and African American film. She co-directed the award-winning documentary Midnight Ramble: Oscar Micheaux and the Story of Race Movies.  LOUISE SPENCE is an associate professor and coordinator of media studies at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut and has published extensively in scholarly journals and anthologies.  THULANI DAVIS is a writer, author of the novels Maker of Saints and 1959  and contributor to Malcolm X: The Great Photographs and the biographical film W.E.B. Du Bois.