Research Catalog

Title

Oscar Micheaux & his circle : African-American filmmaking and race cinema of the silent era / Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser, editors and curators.

Publication

• Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016.
• ©2001

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bowser, Pearl, 1931-
• Gaines, Jane, 1946-
• Musser, Charles

Description

xxx, 353 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

Alternative Title

• Oscar Micheaux and his circle : African-American filmmaking and race cinema of the silent era
• African-American filmmaking and race cinema of the silent era

Subjects

• Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951
• African Americans in motion pictures
• Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951 > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses
• Race in motion pictures > Congresses
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• African American motion picture producers and directors > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses
• African Americans in motion pictures > Congresses
• African American authors > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses
• Race films > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Chiefly papers presented at a conference held Jan. 1995, Yale University.
• Reprint. Originally published by Indiana University Press, 2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-539) and index.
• Includes filmography (pages 228-285).

Contents

1. Black silence and the politics of representation / Clyde R. Taylor -- 2. The notion of treatment : black aesthetics and film: based on an interview with Peter Hessli and additional contributions from Pearl Bowser / Authur Jafa -- 3. From shadows n shufflin' to spotlights and cinema: the Lafayette Players, 1915-1932 / Francesca Thompson -- 4. The African-American press and race movies, 1909-1929 / Charlene Regester -- 5. Oscar Micheaux's Within our gates: the possibilities for alternative visions / Michele Wallace -- 6. Within our gates : from race melodrama to opportunity narrative / Jane Gaines -- 7. Oscar Micheaux's The symbol of the unconquered: text and context / Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence -- 8. To redream the dreams of white playwrights : reappropriation and resistance in Oscar Micheaux's Body and soul / Charles Musser -- 9. Black patriarch on the prairie: national identity and black manhood in the early novels of Oscar Micheaux / Jayna Brown -- 10. Telling white lies : Oscar Micheaux and Charles W. Chesnutt / Corey K. Creekmur -- 11. Planes, trains, and automobiles : the Flying Ace, the Norman Company, and the Micheaux connection / Phyllis R. Klotman -- 12. Colored Players Film Corporation: An alternative to Micheaux / Charles Musser; Lost, then found: the wedding scence from The Scar of Shame (1929) / Pearl Bowswer -- 13. Richard D. Maurice and the Maurice Film Company / Pearl Bowser and Charles Musser -- 14. Cinematic foremothers : Zora Neale Hurston and Eloyce King Patrick Gist / Gloria J. Gibson -- Appendix A. The reemergence of Oscar Micheaux : a timeline and bibliographic essay / J. Ronald Green -- Appendix B. An Oscar Micheaux filmography : from the silents through his transition to sound. 1919-1931 / compiled by Charles Musser, Corey Creekmur, Pearl Bowser, Charlene Regester, Ron Green, and Louise Spence -- Appendix C. A Colored Players Film Corporation Filmography / compiled by Charles Musser -- Appendix D. Norman Film Manufacturing Company : production and theatrical release dates for all-black-cast films / compiled by Phyllis B. Klotman.

Call Number

Sc F 16-421

ISBN

• 9780253021359
• 0253021359
• 9780253021557 (canceled/invalid)
• 0253021553 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

951991098

Title

Oscar Micheaux & his circle : African-American filmmaking and race cinema of the silent era / Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser, editors and curators.

Publisher

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2001

Edition

First paperback edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-539) and index.

Includes filmography (pages 228-285).

Local Note

SELECTED PAPERS FROM A 1995 CONFERENCE. REPRINT OF A 2001 ED.

Added Author

Bowser, Pearl, 1931- editor, contributor.

Gaines, Jane, 1946- editor, contributor.

Musser, Charles, editor, contributor.

Research Call Number

Sc F 16-421

MWES (Micheaux, O.) 16-3953