04140nam 2200553 450 991079829160332120200520144314.00-253-02155-3(CKB)3710000000614985(EBL)4452963(OCoLC)945613270(OCoLC)966762204(MdBmJHUP)muse52890(Au-PeEL)EBL4452963(CaPaEBR)ebr11175567(CaONFJC)MIL906614(MiAaPQ)EBC4452963(EXLCZ)99371000000061498520160404h20012001 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierAfrican-American filmmaking and race cinema of the silent era Oscar Micheaux & his circle /Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser, editors and curatorsBloomington :Indiana University Press,[2001]©20011 online resource (384 p.)Chiefly papers presented at a conference held Jan. 1995, Yale University.0-253-02135-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note: I. OVERVIEWS -- 1. Black Silence and the Politics of Representation CLYDE R. TAYLOR -- 2. The Notion of Treatment: Black Aesthetics and Film, -- based on an interview with Peter Hessli and additional -- discussions with Pearl Bowser ARTHUR JAFA -- 3. From Shadows 'n Shufflin' to Spotlights and Cinema: -- The Lafayette Players, 1915-1932 SISTER FRANCESCA THOMPSON -- 4. The African-American Press and Race Movies, 1909-1929 -- CHARLENE REGESTER -- II. OSCAR MICHEAUX -- 5. Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates: -- The Possibilities for Alternative Visions MICHELE WALLACE -- 6. Within Our Gates: From Race Melodrama to Opportunity Narrative -- JANE GAINES -- 7. Oscar Micheaux's The Symbol of the Unconquered: Text and Context -- PEARL BOWSER AND LOUISE SPENCE -- 8. To Redream the Dreams of White Playwrights: Reappropriation -- and Resistance in Oscar Micheaux's Body and Soul CHARLES MUSSER -- 9. Black Patriarch on the Prairie: National Identity and Black -- Manhood in the Early Novels of Oscar Micheaux JAYNA BROWN -- 10. Telling White Lies: Oscar Micheaux and Charles W. Chesnutt -- COREY K. CREEKMUR -- III. MICHEAUX'S CONTEMPORARIES -- 11. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: The FlyingAce, the Norman -- Company, and the Micheaux Connection PHYLLIS R. KLOTMAN -- 12. Colored Players Film Corporation -- An Alternative to Micheaux CHARLES MUSSER -- Lost, Then Found: The Wedding Scene -- from The Scar of Shame (1929) PEARL BOWSER -- 13. Richard D. Maurice and the Maurice Film Company -- PEARL BOWSER AND CHARLES MUSSER -- 14. Cinematic Foremothers: -- Zora Neale Hurston and Eloyce King Patrick Gist GLORIA J. GIBSON -- APPENDIX A The Reemergence of Oscar Micheaux: -- A Timeline and Bibliographic Essay j. RONALD GREEN -- APPENDIX B An Oscar Micheaux Filmography: From the Silents through His -- Transition to Sound, 1919-1931 COMPILED BY CHARLES MUSSER, COREY K. -- CREEKMUR, PEARL BOWSER, J. RONALD GREEN, CHARLENE REGESTER, AND LOUISE SPENCE -- APPENDIX C A Colored Players Film Corporation Filmography -- COMPILED BY CHARLES MUSSER -- APPENDIX D Norman Film Manufacturing Company: Production and -- Theatrical Release Dates for All-Black-Cast Films COMPILED BY PHYLLIS R. KLOTMAN -- Notes -- Bibliography COMPILED BY KRISTEN BARNES, JANE GAINES, FRED NEUMANN, -- AND HANK OKAZAKI -- About the Contributors -- Credits -- Index.African Americans in motion picturesCongressesRace filmsCongressesSilent filmsCongressesAfrican Americans in motion picturesRace filmsSilent films791.430233092Bowser PearlGaines JaneMusser CharlesMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798291603321African-American filmmaking and race cinema of the silent era3674194UNINA