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Oscar Micheaux Research Papers
Micheaux Independent Film Festival
June 14-15, 2003 � Great Bend, Kansas
Oscar Micheaux: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Library
SOME PHOTOS AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF MICHEAUX'S LIFE
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| THE OSCAR MICHEAUX LEGACY |
HOT NEW RELEASE For March 2003!
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"Exciting New BOOK on the life of Oscar Micheaux, the legendary Black filmmaker...$24.95."
Over a three-decade period that began in 1919, Oscar Micheaux wrote, directed, edited, produced and distributed over forty films nationally and internationally. These films usually featured all-Black casts. They spanned a silent film period (1919-1930) and a talkie period (1931-1948). Micheaux also authored over seven novels.
This book has a complete Filmography of Micheaux's films, extensive Notes, Index, Photos, Bibliography and Appendices(s).
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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BOOKS WRITTEN BY OSCAR MICHEAUX
Oscar MicheauxThe Homesteader
The story of a Black pioneer�s life as a South Dakota rancher. Out of loneliness, he marries the daughter of a vain Black clergyman, forsaking his true love, a Scottish woman, to avoid social stigma and trouble with the law. The marriage sours owing to interference by the hostile father-in-law. The rancher�s wife goes insane and kills her father and herself. The authorities arrest the pioneer for both murders, but his first love hires detectives who prove his innocence.
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Oscar MicheauxTHE CONQUEST
This book was Oscar Micheaux's first novel. It tells the story of the aspirations and struggles of a black homesteader named Oscar Devereaux. Born on a small farm near Cairo, Illinois, one of thirteen children, Devereaux leaves home to work in the Chicago stockyards and finally graduates to the job of porter in a Pullman railway car.
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OTHER RARE BOOKS BY MICHEAUX
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