Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only - by Patrick McGilligan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In a feat of historical investigation and vivid storytelling, a film biographer takes on one of the greatest--and most complex--figures in the history of American entertainment, Oscar Micheaux, the son of freed slaves who formed his own film production company after Hollywood failed to bid high enough for film rights to his stories.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith--a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story has been nearly forgotten today. The son of freed slaves, he roamed America as a Pullman porter before making his first mark as a homesteader in South Dakota--and going on from there to become the king of the race cinema industry, producing and/or directing nearly forty films during a time of Jim Crow segregation when African-American artists were not welcome in Hollywood.</p><p>In this groundbreaking new biography, award-winning film historian Patrick McGilligan offers a vivid and fascinating portrait of a true pioneer of American culture who was equal parts visionary, hustler, huckster, innovator, and raffish Barnum-like showman--and the first great African-American filmmaker.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"a well researched, passionately felt and endlessly fascinating look at a singular American life."--<em>Kirkus Reviews</em><br><br>McGilligan does a fine job of reaffirming Micheaux's significance beyond the appreciation of cineastes.--<em>Publishers Weekly</em><br><br>Praise for Alfred Hitchcock: "A hugely satisfying portrait of the artist."--<em>Entertainment Weekly</em><br><br>Praise for Alfred Hitchcock: "Enthralling, scholarly, and candid."--<em>Publishers Weekly</em><br><br>"a lively, readable tale"--<em>New York Times Book Review</em><br><br>"An enormously moving and compelling account of a quixotic life defined by arduous toil and perpetual optimism."--Directors Guild Association Quarterly<br><br>"In the skilled hands of Patrick McGilligan, Oscar Micheaux's life story bristles and takes flight."--Pearl Bowser, author of Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films and His Audiences<br><br>"McGilligan deftly assembles the sterling research of scholars of early black filmmaking into an enormously moving and compelling account of a quixotic life defined by arduous toil and perpetual optimism."--DGA Quarterly<br><br>"McGilligan has made this incredible, half-forgotten life newly available to us all."--The Guardian<br><br>Praise for Alfred Hitchcock: "Magnificently exhaustive, absolutely definitive, marvelously magesterial..."--Los Angeles Times Book Review<br><br>Praise for Alfred Hitchcock: "Staggering... illuminating... The Master of Suspense finally gets and authoritative life."--Kirkus Reviews (starred)<br>
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