Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only : The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker - Rilegato

McGilligan, Patrick

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ISBN 10: 0060731397 ISBN 13: 9780060731397

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2007

Riassunto

Traces the life and career of a pioneering director from the genre of African-American cinema, discussing his childhood in the homesteading communities of South Dakota, his direction of numerous silent and sound films at a time before black-produced movies could be shown in white theaters, and his lesser-known influence on American black culture. 25,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“McGilligan deftly assembles the sterling research of scholars of early black filmmaking into an enormously moving and compelling account of a quixotic life defined by arduous toil and perpetual optimism.” (DGA Quarterly)

“a well researched, passionately felt and endlessly fascinating look at a singular American life.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“McGilligan has made this incredible, half-forgotten life newly available to us all.” (The Guardian)

“An enormously moving and compelling account of a quixotic life defined by arduous toil and perpetual optimism.” (Directors Guild Association Quarterly)

McGilligan does a fine job of reaffirming Micheaux’s significance beyond the appreciation of cineastes. (Publishers Weekly)

“In the skilled hands of Patrick McGilligan, Oscar Micheaux’s life story bristles and takes flight.” (Pearl Bowser, author of Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films and His Audiences)

“a lively, readable tale” (New York Times Book Review)

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Praise for Alfred Hitchcock: “Magnificently exhaustive, absolutely definitive, marvelously magesterial...” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

L'autore:

Patrick McGilligan is the author of Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light; Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast; and George Cukor: A Double Life; and books on the lives of directors Nicholas Ray, Robert Altman, and Oscar Micheaux, and actors James Cagney, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood. He also edited the acclaimed five-volume Backstory series of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters and (with Paul Buhle), the definitive Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, not far from Kenosha, where Orson Welles was born.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0060731397
• ISBN 13: 9780060731397
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 402