Oscar Micheaux and his circle
Subtitle: African-American filmmaking and race cinema of the silent era
By: Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser, editors and curators.
Contributors: Bowser, Pearl, 1931-; Gaines, Jane, 1946-; Musser, Charles.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
Subjects: Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.; African Americans in motion pictures -- Congresses.; Race films -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes filmographies, bibliographical references (p. [329]-339) and index.
Chiefly papers presented at a conference held Jan. 1995, Yale University.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I. OVERVIEWS; title: 1. Black Silence and the Politics of Representation CLYDE R. TAYLOR; title: 2. The Notion of Treatment: Black Aesthetics and Film,; title: based on an interview with Peter Hessli and additional; title: discussions with Pearl Bowser ARTHUR JAFA; title: 3. From Shadows 'n Shufflin' to Spotlights and Cinema:; title: The Lafayette Players, 1915-1932 SISTER FRANCESCA THOMPSON; title: 4. The African-American Press and Race Movies, 1909-1929; title: CHARLENE REGESTER; title: II. OSCAR MICHEAUX; title: 5. Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates:; title: The Possibilities for Alternative Visions MICHELE WALLACE; title: 6. Within Our Gates: From Race Melodrama to Opportunity Narrative; title: JANE GAINES; title: 7. Oscar Micheaux's The Symbol of the Unconquered: Text and Context; title: PEARL BOWSER AND LOUISE SPENCE; title: 8. To Redream the Dreams of White Playwrights: Reappropriation; title: and Resistance in Oscar Micheaux's Body and Soul CHARLES MUSSER; title: 9. Black Patriarch on the Prairie: National Identity and Black; title: Manhood in the Early Novels of Oscar Micheaux JAYNA BROWN; title: 10. Telling White Lies: Oscar Micheaux and Charles W. Chesnutt; title: COREY K. CREEKMUR; title: III. MICHEAUX'S CONTEMPORARIES; title: 11. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: The FlyingAce, the Norman; title: Company, and the Micheaux Connection PHYLLIS R. KLOTMAN; title: 12. Colored Players Film Corporation; title: An Alternative to Micheaux CHARLES MUSSER; title: Lost, Then Found: The Wedding Scene; title: from The Scar of Shame (1929) PEARL BOWSER; title: 13. Richard D. Maurice and the Maurice Film Company; title: PEARL BOWSER AND CHARLES MUSSER; title: 14. Cinematic Foremothers:; title: Zora Neale Hurston and Eloyce King Patrick Gist GLORIA J. GIBSON; title: APPENDIX A The Reemergence of Oscar Micheaux:; title: A Timeline and Bibliographic Essay j. RONALD GREEN; title: APPENDIX B An Oscar Micheaux Filmography: From the Silents through His; title: Transition to Sound, 1919-1931 COMPILED BY CHARLES MUSSER, COREY K.; title: CREEKMUR, PEARL BOWSER, J. RONALD GREEN, CHARLENE REGESTER, AND LOUISE SPENCE; title: APPENDIX C A Colored Players Film Corporation Filmography; title: COMPILED BY CHARLES MUSSER; title: APPENDIX D Norman Film Manufacturing Company: Production and; title: Theatrical Release Dates for All-Black-Cast Films COMPILED BY PHYLLIS R. KLOTMAN; title: Notes; title: Bibliography COMPILED BY KRISTEN BARNES, JANE GAINES, FRED NEUMANN,; title: AND HANK OKAZAKI; title: About the Contributors; title: Credits; title: Index.