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

Name: Oscar Micheaux: the Great and Only The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker
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ISBN: 9780060731397

ISBN-10: 0060731397

ISBN-13: 9780060731397

Edition: 2006

Authors: Patrick McGilligan

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Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith: a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story is nearly forgotten today. Now, in a feat of historical investigation and vivid storytelling, one of our greatest film biographers takes on one of the most talented and complex figures in the history of American entertainment. The son of freed slaves, Micheaux grew up in Metropolis, Illinois, then roamed America as a Pullman porter before making his first mark as a homesteader in South Dakota. Disaster and defeat there led him to forge a career publishing a successful series of autobiographical novels. Ever the entrepreneur, when Hollywood failed to…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 6/12/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.32" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Patrick McGilligan's biographies include the acclaimed Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only ; the Edgar-nominated Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light ; Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast ; and George Cukor: A Double Life . The author of several New York Times Notable Books , he has also penned biographies of Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, Robert Altman, and James Cagney, along with the oral history Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist (with Paul Buhle). McGilligan lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.