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With a Crooked Stick: The Films of Oscar Micheau
With a Crooked Stick The Films of Oscar Micheau
Author: J. Ronald Green
With a "crooked stick," filmmaker Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951) sought to hit a "straight lick" by stressing the strategic importance of class mobility, or "uplift," for African Americans. A theme in all of his more than 40 feature-length, black-produced, black-directed, black-cast, and black-audience films, uplift would allow for the better things...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780253343826
ISBN-10: 0253343828
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Indiana University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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