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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: J. Ronald GreenPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.694kg ISBN: 9780253337535ISBN 10: 0253337534 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 22 September 2000 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Micheaux v. Griffith 2. Micheaux's Class Position 3. Twoness and Micheaux's Style 4. Negative Images 5. The Middle Path 6. Middle?Class Cinema 7. White Financing 8. Stereotype and Caricature 9. Revising Caricature 10. Interrogating Caricature as Entertainment 11. Interrogating False Uplift 12. Passing and Film Style 13. Racial Loyalty 14. Micheaux and Cinema Today Appendix One: On Class and the Classical Appendix Two: Filmography Appendix Three: Selections from the Black Press Appendix Four: Bibliography Notes IndexReviewsA good deal of Straight Lick by J. Ronald Green is dedicated to making a case for [Micheaux's] later films, representing Micheaux as an auteur whose political and aesthetic agenda is evident across the range of his work... For Green Micheaux's films were actually populist efforts to establish a new kind of cinema for the black middle classes; they offered African American audiences low production values which nevertheless strove to make visible the transformational possibilities of grassroots film-making - Times Literary Supplement, 19 January 2001 Until recently the name Oscar Micheaux might have provoked the question Oscar who? But scholars have now begun to look at this pioneering African American moviemaker. This volume joins Betti Carol VanEpps-Taylor's biography Oscar Micheaux: Dakota Homesteader, Author, Pioneer Filmmaker (1998) and Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence's Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences (CH, Mar'01), attesting to the intellectual rigor of this trend. Though Green's study is most in the mold of a literary critique, the paucity of Micheaux sources obligates all three authors to write as historians, cultural critics, anthropologists, and decoders. In the absence of script drafts, interoffice memos, gossip columns, memoirs, reviews, and handy prints of films-the stuff of mainstream cinema history-Green (Ohio State Univ.) sets up a critical landscape that allows the reader to sense the density of the culture out of which Micheaux's work arose while also citing sources of his own theoretical modeling. That said, any Micheaux film demands a great deal of creative dissection, which Green provides. He makes uncommonly good use of frame enlargements and stills and provides a thoughtful index and a thorough bibliography. For serious undergraduate students and scholars. -T. Cripps, formerly, Morgan State University, 2001mar CHOICE. """A good deal of Straight Lick by J. Ronald Green is dedicated to making a case for [Micheaux's] later films, representing Micheaux as an auteur whose political and aesthetic agenda is evident across the range of his work... For Green Micheaux's films were actually populist efforts to establish a new kind of cinema for the black middle classes; they offered African American audiences low production values which nevertheless strove to make visible the transformational possibilities of grassroots film-making"" - Times Literary Supplement, 19 January 2001" Author InformationJ. Ronald Green is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of History of Art at Ohio State University. His writings on Micheaux and other topics have appeared in journals such as Film Quarterly, Griffithiana, Black Film Review, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Journal of Film and Video, Cinema Journal, Afterimage, and Aperture, and in various anthologies, including Diawara's Black American Cinema. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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