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

ISBN: 0060731400

ISBN13: 9780060731403

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

Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith--a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story has been nearly forgotten today. The son of freed slaves, he roamed America as a Pullman porter before making his first mark as a homesteader in South Dakota--and going on from there to become the king of the race cinema industry, producing and/or directing nearly forty films during a time of Jim Crow segregation...

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Rated 5 stars
Oscar Michaeaux:The great and only.The life of America's first black filmmaker

LUV IT!!!!!LUV IT!!!! Exciting!!!!! Refreshing!!!!This book is so good I feel like I have stepped back in time!!!!!!Amazing!!!!!!Can't put it down!!!!!

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Rated 5 stars
a Great Book on a Great Black Pioneer Film-maker

Oscar Micheaux was a Ground-breaking Film-Maker who paved the way for the Likes of Melvoin Van Peoples,Ossie Davis Jr, Gordon Parks,Spike Lee, John Singleton and other Highly Creative African-American film-Makers that carried on the tradition that was set by Micheaux. Patrick Mcgilligan does a Great job at speaking on the Independence of Oscar Micheaux's creativity. a great job of talking and speaking on Micheaux's Creativity...

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Rated 5 stars
A great book about a great man

McGilligen's "deep background" research pays off as his prose brings life to the mysterious life of Oscar Micheaux. McGilligen's knowledge of film history and movie directors brings historical context and makes Micheaux's accomplishments seem all the more amazing. Paced like a novel, the book is sprinkled liberally with Micheaux's own words, and really seems to capture the man. I certainly hope this book introduces Micheaux...

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Rated 5 stars
McGilligan does it again!

Having successfully chronicled such outsiders behind the camera as Cukor and Lang, celebs with secrets like Eastwood and Nicholson, and iconic geniuses like Hitchcock, I must say that I was surprised when I picked up this latest from the master film historian becuase I knew absolutetly nothing about the book's subject, a deficiency I am afraid that I share with the vast majority of American film-goers. Now thanks to McGilligan's...

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