Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker
by Patrick Mcgilligan
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Author: Patrick McgilliganEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-01
ISBN: 0060731400
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Book Reviews of Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker
Book Review: informative and grand--but lacks imaginative framing
Summary: 3 Stars
For anyone interested in the first true independent filmmaker in american cinema, Oscar Micheaux, this book is a great read. On top of being a wonderfully encompassing biographical project, this book reveals a lot about early hollywood history and the ways in which it created its own fringes. The problem here is that micheaux is a notoriously mysterious person, and the book comes off sometimes as a means of unveiling this mystery. I think that a straightforward biographical format might be a little inappropriate for the purposes of an account of micheaux's life. This is a great start, but a REALLY interesting novelist should take up this material and use it to write a more IMAGINATIVE biography.
Nevertheless, this is a good read for those of you curious about micheaux and his famously independent spirit.
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