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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Pearl Bowser , Jane Gaines , Charles MusserPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Edition: Annotated edition Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 28.00cm Weight: 1.584kg ISBN: 9780253339942ISBN 10: 0253339944 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 01 August 2001 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsContributors 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 GistReviewsAn extremely valuable contribution to the history of African American art. Toni Morrison Author InformationPearl Bowser is founder and director of African Diaspora Images, a collection of historical and contemporary African-American and African films and memorabilia. Since 1970 she has curated film programs in Europe, Asia, Africa, and throughout the United States including the Whitney Museum, the American Museum of the Moving Images, the Brooklyn Museum, the Pacific Film Archives (Berkeley), and the Cleveland Museum of Art as well as a tour of black colleges. Her production credits include Mississippi Triangle (1984), Namibia Independence Now (1986), and Stories About Us (1988). She was co-director and director of research for Midnight Ramble: Oscar Micheaux and the Story of Race Movies (1994). With Louise Spence, she co-authored Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences (2000). Jane Gaines is Professor of Literature and English at Duke University, where she directs the Film and Video Program, which she founded in 1985. She has co-edited Fabrications: Costume and the Female Body (1990), edited Classical Hollywood Narrative Cinema: The Paradigm Wars (1992), and published Contested Culture: The Image the Voice and the Law (1991) for which she received the Katherine Singer Kovacs Award. Her recent work is in African and African-American literature and film melodrama. Her book Fire and Desire: Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent Era has been recently published by University of Chicago Press (2001). Charles Musser is Professor of American Studies and Film Studies at Yale University, where he co-chairs the Film Studies Program. His books include The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 (1990) and Edison Motion Pictures, 18901900: An Annotated Filmography (1998). He produced, directed, and co-wrote the hour-long documentary film Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982). With Ed Guerrero and Mark Reid, he curated Paul Robeson film retrospectives at UCLA Film & Television Archives and the Museum of Modern Art, mounted in conjunction with the touring exhibition Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen. In 1996, he received the Prix Jean Mitry from the Giornate del Cinema Muto for his contribution to the study of silent film. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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