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Oscar Micheaux, the great and only
the life of America's first great Black filmmaker
By McGilligan, Patrick
- ISBN
- 978-0-06073-139-7
- Publisher
- New York : HarperCollins, c2007.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on May 15, 2007
Oscar Micheaux is the most stellar filmmaker from the heyday of race-picture production. Award-winning biographer McGilligan (Alfred Hitchcock) presents this industry icon as the no-holds-barred entrepreneur that he was. While other (primarily Anglo) producers were interested in financial success, Micheaux was driven by a desire to hold a mirror up to African American society to portray the good and the bad. Accor...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
