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The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer
by Oscar Micheaux, Learthen Dorsey. 308 pgs.

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The novel portrays 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. He is persoable, industrious, and frugal with a purpose. After saving $2,500, Devereaux goes to South Dakota and buys land. His object is not speculation for quick profit but the cultivation of property he can call his own. He plows and sows and sweats, and by the age of twenty-five has reaped an estate worth $20,000. Success is sweet, self-respect is sweeter. But if the calamities he is exposed to as a homesteader are severe, so are those brought on by marriage to the passive daughter of a dominating preacher.

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Introductory

Index to Illustrations

Introduction

Notes

The Conquest

Chapter II: Leaving Home--A Maiden

Chapter III: Chicago, Chasing a Will-O-The-Wisp

Chapter IV: The P-----N Company

Chapter V: "Go West Young Man and Grow Up with The Country"

Chapter VI: "And Where is Oristown?" the Town on The Missouri

Chapter VIII: Far Down the Pacific--The Proposal

Chapter IX: The Return--Ernwt Mcholson

Chapter X: The Oklahoma Grafter

Chapter XI: Deaun' in Mules

Chapter XII: The Homesteaders

Chapter XIII: Imaginations Run Amuck

Chapter XIV: The Surveyors

Chapter XV: "Which Town Will the R. R. Stitike?"

Chapter XVI: Megory's Day

Chapter XVII: Ernest Nicholson's Return--The Building West Of Town--"What's It All About"

Chapter XIX: In the Valley of the Keya Paha. the Rivals. The Vigilants

Chapter XX: The Out Law's Last Stand

Chapter XXI: The Boom

Chapter XXII: The President's Proclamation

Chapter XXIII: Where the Negro Fails

Chapter XXIV: "And the Crowds Did Come." the Prairie Fire

Chapter XXV: The Scotch Girl

Chapter XXVI: The Battle

Chapter XXVII: The Sacrifice--Race Loyalty

Chapter XXVIII: The Breeds

Chapter XXIX: In the Valley of the Dog Ear

Chapter XXXI: The M'Cralines

Chapter XXXII: A Long Night

Chapter XXXIII: The Survival of on Fittest

Chapter XXXIV: East of State Street

Chapter XXXV: An Uncrowned King

Chapter XXXVI: A Snake in the Grass

Chapter XXXVII: The Progressives and the Reactionaries

Chapter XXXVIII: Sanctimonious Hypocrisy

Chapter Xxxix: Beginning of the End

Chapter XL: The Mennonites

Chapter XLI: The Drouth

Chapter XLII: A Year of Coincidences

Chapter XLIII: "And Satan Came Also."
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Black Novelist as White Racist: The Myth of Black Inferiority in the Novels of Oscar Micheaux
by Joseph A. Young. 181 pgs.

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In exceptionally close analyses of six novels by black writer Oscar Micheaux, Young traces the development of Micheaux's racial theories and of his stance as apologist for American imperialism. Young argues that these novels are examples of the detrimental effect of oppressive myths on early 20th-century black behavior and values. The characters in the novels tend to mirror the black stereotypes of the post-bellum confederate romanticists, both the "Cavalier racists" and the "Negrophobes." Adopting the world view of the oppressor required that Micheaux reject both his own blackness and that of his racial kinsmen.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: The Tragic Vision of The Conquest

2: Uncle Tom's Burden

3: The Ideal of Assimilationism in The Homesteader and The Wind from Nowhere

4: The Ignored Negro in The Case of Mrs. Wingate and The Story of Dorothy Stanfield

5: Micheaux as Perpetrator and as Victim of Negrophobia

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Reclaiming the Frontier: Oscar Micheaux as Black Turnerian, in African American Review
by Dan Moos. 25 pgs.

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Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences, in Film Criticism
by Laura Quinn. 8 pgs.

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"Try to Refrain from That Desire": Self-Control and Violent Passion in Oscar Micheaux's African American Western, in African American Review
by Michael K. Johnson. 17 pgs.

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"Alias Jeremiah": Oscar Micheaux's Pathetic Preachers, in West Virginia University Philological Papers
by Nikhil Bilwakesh. Multiple pgs.

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Black American Poets and Dramatists: Before the Harlem Renaissance ("Oscar Micheaux: 1884-1951" begins on p. 106)
by Harold Bloom. 145 pgs.

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Black American Poets and Dramatists: Before the Harlem Renaissance

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User's Guide

The Life of the Author

Introduction

William Stanley Braithwaite 1878-1962

William Wells Brown

Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Jupiter Hammon

Frances E. W. Harper

George Moses Horton

James Weldon Johnson

Oscar Micheaux

Phillis Wheatley

Albery Allson Whitman
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Vision and Refuge: Essays on the Literature of the Great Plains ("Oscar Micheaux, Black Novelist and Film Maker" begins on p. 109)
by Virginia Faulkner, Frederick C. Luebke. 148 pgs.

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Publications Sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies

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Preface

Virginia Faulkner Introduction

Notes

Part 1 Original Inhabitants the Teton Sioux

Black Elk Speaks as Epic and Ritual Attempt to Reverse History

Part 2 Nineteenth-Century Immigrants the Euro-American Experience

Materialism and Mysticism in Great Plains Literature

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Agrarian Versus Frontiersman in Midwestern Fiction

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Mythic Aspects of Giants in the Earth

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Life on the Great Plains in Scandinavian-American Literature

Willa Cather and Plains Culture

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Part 3 Contemporary Minorities Blacks and Chicanos

Oscar Micheaux, Black Novelist and Film Maker

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The Great Plains as Refuge in Chicano Literature

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The Contributors

Index
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Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers ("Oscar Devereaux Micheaux" begins on p. 244)
by Spencer Moon. 400 pgs.

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As evidenced in interviews included in this volume, many African American filmmakers consider themselves artists first, their ethnicity being only part of what influences their work. This is the first book by an African American on contemporary African American filmmakers. Here directors and producers speak for themselves, posing challenges to current thinking in the field. Special emphasis is given to the filmmakers' productions and their experiences. Essays on historic figures reveal the rich history of the African American contribution to cinema. From Oscar Micheaux and Spencer Williams to Neema Barnett and the team of George Jackson and Doug McHenry, this revealing reference work will enlighten scholars, students, and film buffs.

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FOREWORD: NINETY-PLUS YEARS OF FILMMAKING

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THE FILMMAKERS

William Alexander

Madeline Anderson

Neema Barnette

St. Clair Bourne

Charles Burnett

Introduction

Roy Campanella II

Ayoka Chenzira

Francee Covington

Julie Dash

Ivan Dixon

Bill Duke

Jamaa Fanaka

Carl Franklin

Wendell Franklin

William Greaves

Henry Hampton

Hobart Whitaker Harris

Wendell Burks Harris, Jr.

Reginald Hudlin

Albert and Allen Hughes

George Jackson and Doug McHenry

Ashley James

Avon Kirkland

Stan Lathan

Spike Lee

Louis Massiah

Oscar Deveraux Micheaux

Floyd Norman and Leo Sullivan

Michelle Parkerson

Gordon Alexander Parks, Sr.

Matty Rich

Hugh Robertson

Michael Schultz

Jackie Shearer

John Singleton

Arlando C. Smith

Robert Townsend

Mario Van Peebles

Melvin Van Peebles

Mark Warren III

The Wayans Family: Keenan Ivory, Damon, Shawn and Marlon

Spencer William, Jr.

Allen Willis

APPENDIX

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

About the Author
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Headline to Headlights: Oscar Micheaux's Exploitation of the Rhinelander Case, in The Western Journal of Black Studies
by Charlene Regester. 10 pgs.

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From Sambo to Superspade: The Black Experience in Motion Pictures (Discussion of Oscar Micheaux begins on p. 74)
by Daniel J. Leab. 308 pgs.

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For My Parents

Acknowledgments

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Introduction: the Lack of Humanity

1: The Gamut from a to B

2: The Birth of a Nation

3: The Freezing of an Image

4: All-Colored" --But Not Very Different"

5: Shufflin' into Bound

6: A Limited Response

7: Glimmers of Change

8: A Pale Black Imitation

9: Toward a New Image

10: Black is Boxoffice

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Index
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The Oxford History of World Cinema ("Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951)" begins on p. 499)
by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. 824 pgs.

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From its humble beginnings as a novelty in a handful of cities, cinema has risen to become a billion-dollar industry and the most spectacular and original contemporary art form. In The Oxford History of World Cinema, an international team of film historians traces the history of this enduringly popular entertainment medium. Covering all aspects of its development, stars, studios, and cultural impact, the book celebrates and chronicles over one hundred years of diverse achievement from westerns to the New Wave, from animation to the avant-garde, and from Hollywood to Hong Kong. The Oxford History of World Cinema tells the story of the major inventions and developments in the cinema business, its institutions, genres, and personnel, and they outline the evolution of national cinemas round the world--the varied and distinctive film traditions that have developed alongside Hollywood. A unique aspect of the book are the special inset features on the film-makers and personalities--Garbo and Godard, Keaton and Kurosawa, Bugs Bunny and Bergman--who have had an enduring impact in popular memory and cinematic lore. With over 280 illustrations, a full bibliography, and an extensive index, this is the buff's ultimate guide to cinema worldwide.

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Acknowledgements

Contributors

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Special Features

List of Colour Illustrations

General Introduction

1: Silent Cinema 1895-1930

Introduction

Origins and Survival

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Early Cinema

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Transitional Cinema

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The Hollywood Studio System

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The World-Wide Spread of Cinema

The First World War and the Crisis in Europe

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Tricks and Animation

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Comedy

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Documentary

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Cinema and the Avant-Garde

Serials

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French Silent Cinema

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Italy: Spectacle and Melodrama

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British Cinema from Hepworth to Hitchcock

Germany: the Weimar Years

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The Scandinavian Style

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Pre-Revolutionary Russia

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The Soviet Union and the Russian émigrés

Yiddish Cinema in Europe

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Japan: Before the Great Kanto Earthquake

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Music and the Silent Film

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The Heyday of the Silents

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2: Sound Cinema 1930-1960

Introduction

The Introduction of Sound

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Hollywood: the Triumph of the Studio System

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Censorship and Self-Regulation

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The Sound of Music

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Technology and Innovation

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Animation

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Cinema and Genre

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The Western

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The Musical

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Crime Movies

The Fantastic

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Documentary

Socialism, Fascism, and Democracy

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The Popular Art of French Cinema

Italy from Fascism to Neo-Realism

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Britain at the End of Empire

Germany: Nazism and After

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East Central Europe Before the Second World War

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Soviet Film Under Stalin

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Indian Cinema: Origins to Independence

China Before 1949

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The Classical Cinema in Japan

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The Emergence of Australian Film

Cinema in Latin America

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After the War

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Transformation of the Hollywood System

Independents and Mavericks

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3: The Modern Cinema 1960-1995

Introduction

Television and the Film Industry

The New Hollywood

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New Technologies

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Sex and Sensation

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The Black Presence in American Cinema

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Exploitation and the Mainstream

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Dreams and Nightmares in the Hollywood Blockbuster

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CinÉma-VÉritÉ and the New Documentary

Avant-Garde Film: the Second Wave

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Animation in the Post-Industrial Era

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Modern Film Music

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Art Cinema

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New Directions in French Cinema

Italy: Auteurs and After

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Spain After Franco

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British Cinema: the Search for Identity

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The New German Cinema

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East Germany: the Defa Story

Changing States in East Central Europe

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Russia After the Thaw

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Cinema in the Soviet Republics

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Turkish Cinema

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The Arab World

The Cinemas of Sub-Saharan Africa

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Iranian Cinema

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India: Filming the Nation

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Indonesian Cinema

China After the Revolution

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Popular Cinema in Hong Kong

Taiwanese New Cinema

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The Modernization of Japanese Film

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New Australian Cinema

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New Zealand Cinema

Canadian Cinema/Cinéma Canadien

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New Cinemas in Latin America

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New Concepts of Cinema

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The Resurgence of Cinema

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Index

List of Picture Sources

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