Oscar Micheaux, the great and only the life of America's first Black filmmaker / Patrick McGilligan.

Author/creator McGilligan, Patrick
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : HarperCollins, ©2007.
Descriptionvii, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951.
Motion picture producers and directors--United States. --Biography.
African American motion picture producers and directors--Biography.

Contents 1884-1900: Metropolis, Illinois -- 1900-1904: black Metropolis -- 1904-1906: the rosebud -- 1906-1908: the one true woman -- 1908-1909: a new persona -- 1909-1912: hammer blows -- 1912-1914: dark days -- 1914-1918: the film bug -- 1919-1921: a tongue of fire -- 1921-1922: Harlem and Roanoke -- 1923-1924: the pale of the law -- 1925-1927: straws in the wind -- 1928-1931: a miracle rebound -- 1931-1935: Jews with money -- 1936-1940: reaping and sowing -- 1941-1947: the wind from nowhere -- 1947-1951: ahead of time.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [375]-390) and index.
Bibliography noteIncludes filmography: p. 352-366.
Bibliography note"Works by Oscar Micheaux": p. [351].
LCCN 2007060735
ISBN0060731397
ISBN9780060731397