{"product_id":"oscar-micheaux-the-great-and-only-the-life-of-americas-first-black-filmmaker-9780060731403","title":"Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker","description":"\u003cp\u003eOscar 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcGilligan, Patrick:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003ePatrick McGilligan is the author of \u003cem\u003eAlfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eand Light\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eFritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eGeorge Cukor: A Double Life\u003c\/em\u003e; and books on the lives of directors Nicholas Ray, Robert Altman, and Oscar Micheaux, and actors James Cagney, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood. He also edited the acclaimed five-volume \u003cem\u003eBackstory\u003c\/em\u003e series of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters and (with Paul Buhle), the definitive \u003cem\u003eTender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, not far from Kenosha, where Orson Welles was born.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50502931546386,"sku":"9780060731403","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_227287bc-180a-497a-9e57-60f3be3b2ad8.jpg?v=1730778949","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/oscar-micheaux-the-great-and-only-the-life-of-americas-first-black-filmmaker-9780060731403","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}