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Oscar Micheaux

Film/TV Producer, Film Director, Author (2-Jan-1884 — 25-Mar-1951)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS


J. Ronald Green. With A Crooked Stick: The Films of Oscar Micheaux. Indiana University Press. 2004. 314pp.

Ronald J. Green. Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux. Indiana University Press. 2000. 295pp.

Patrick McGilligan. Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Great Black Filmmaker. New York: HarperCollins. 2006. 416pp.

Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser. Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era. Indiana University Press. 2001. 353pp.

Earl James Jr. and Beverly J. Robinson. The Life and Work of Oscar Micheaux: Pioneer Black Author and Filmmaker. San Francisco: KMT Publications. 2003. 260pp.

Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence. Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences. Rutgers University Press. 2000. 288pp.

Betti Carol VanEpps-Taylor. Oscar Micheaux: Dakota Homesteader, Author, Pioneer Film Maker. Rapid City, SD: Dakota West Books. 1999. 184pp.


PARALLELS

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  1. NNDB [link]

  2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

  3. Internet Movie Database [link]

  4. Wikipedia [link]

  5. 100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia (p.224)

  6. The Hollywood.com Guide to Film Directors (pp.591-93)

  7. The Encyclopedia of Film (p.375)




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