Oscar Micheaux & his circle : African-American filmmaking and race cinema of the silent era
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Oscar Micheaux & his circle : African-American filmmaking and race cinema of the silent era
Indiana University Press, c2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-339) and index
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内容説明
Oscar Micheaux - the most prolific African-American filmmaker to date and a filmmaking giant of the silent era - has finally found his rightful place in film history. Both artist and showman, Micheaux stirred controversy in his time as he confronted issues such as lynching, miscegenation, peonage and white supremacy, passing and corruption among black clergymen. He emphasised the importance of education and the rights of citizenship (the vote, equal protection under the law) for racial uplift, to advance race progress, to awaken black consciousness and to correct negative behaviour within black communities. These films spoke to black movie-goers in ways that were completely different from Hollywood pictures. In this important new collection, prominent scholars examine Micheaux's surviving silent films, his fellow producers of race films who alternately challenged or emulated his methods and the cultural activities that surrounded and sustained these achievements.
Authors examine Micheaux's films from a range of perspectives, including his radical aesthetic strategies, his use of stereotypes, his powerful critiques of Griffith's Birth of a Nation and Eugene O'Neill's race plays, his radical use of other texts and his work with such genres as the Western. The relationship between black film and both the stage and the black press, issues of underdevelopment and the genealogy of Micheaux scholarship as well as extensive and more accurate filmographies, give a richly textured portrait of the era. The essays will fascinate scholars of in film studies, cultural studies and African American history.
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- Contributors include Jayna Brown, Pearl Bowser, Corey K. Creekmur, Jane Gaines, Gloria J. Gibson, J. Ronald Green, Arthur Jafa, Phyllis R. Klotman, Charles Musser, Charlene Regester, Louise Spence, Clyde R. Taylor, Sr. Francesca Thompson, and Michele Wallace. Contents Introduction: "Oscar Micheaux and Race Movies of the Silent Period," by Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines and Charles Musser I. Overviews Clyde R. Taylor, "Black Silence and the Politics of Representation"
- A.J. Jafa, "The Notion of Treatment: Black Aesthetics and Film," based on an interview with Peter Hessli and additional contributions from Pearl Bowser
- Sr. Francesca Thompson, "From Shadows N' Shufflin' to Spotlights and Cinema: The Lafayette Players, 1915-1932"
- Charlene Regester, "The African-American Press and Race Movies, 1909-1929" II. Oscar Micheaux Michele Wallace, "Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates and the Evolution of Black Stereotypes in American Cinema"
- Jane Gaines, "Within Our Gates: From Race Melodrama to Opportunity Narrative"
- Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence, "Oscar Micheaux's The Symbol of the Unconquered: Text and Context"
- Charles Musser: "To Redream the Dreams of White Playwrights: Reappropriation and Resistance in Oscar Micheaux's Body and Soul"
- Jayna Brown, "Black Patriarch on the Prairie: National Identity and Black Manhood in the Early Novels of Oscar Micheaux"
- Corey Creekmur, "Telling White Lies: Oscar Micheaux and Charles W. Chesnutt" III. Micheaux's Contemporaries Phyllis Klotman, "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: The Flying Ace, The Norman Company and the Micheaux Connection"
- The Colored Players Film Corporation a) Charles Musser, "An Alternative to Micheaux" b) Pearl Bowser, "Lost then Found: The Wedding Scene from The Scar of Shame (1929)"
- Pearl Bowser and Charles Musser, "Richard D. Maurice and the Maurice Film Company"
- Gloria J. Gibson, "Cinematic Foremothers: Zora Neale Hurston and Eloyce King Patrick Gist"
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