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With a Crooked Stick--The Films of Oscar Micheaux
With a Crooked Stick--The Films of Oscar Micheaux
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 thing...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780253217158
ISBN-10: 0253217156
Publication Date: 2/27/2004
Pages: 328
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Publisher: Indiana University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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