Oscar Micheaux

Oscar Micheaux
Biografske informacije
Rođenje	Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (1884-01-02)2. 1. 1884. Metropolis, Illinois, SAD
Smrt	25. 3. 1951. (dob: 67) Charlotte, Sjeverna Karolina, SAD
Supružnik	Alice B. Russell (1892–1984)
Profesionalne informacije
Zanimanje	filmski režiser, producent, književnik
Znamenita djela
Within Our Gates
Nagrade Directors Guild of America Awards 1986 Golden Jubilee Special Award Hollywood Walk of Fame 6721 Hollywood Boulevard

Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (2. januar 1884 – 25. mart 1951) bio je američki književnik, filmski režiser i producent, najpoznatiji kao pionir odnosno osnivač afroameričke kinematografije. Rođen kao dijete bivših crnih robova, pažnju je 1913. privukao svojim autobiografskim romanom The Conquest, koga je, nakon neuspješnih pokušaja da ga ekranizira kroz tada etablirane hollywoodske kompanije, u vlastitoj produkciji adaptirao kao svoj filmski prvijenac The Homesteader. Njegov sljedeći film Within Our Gates je kasnije postao poznat kao svojevrsni odgovor na Griffithovo Rađanje nacije. Micheaux za života nije bio dio američkog filmskog establishmenta, ali se kao sposoban poslovan čovjek prilagodio, odnosno iskoristio tadašnju rasnu segregaciju odnosno nemogućnost crne publike da posjećuje ista kina i predstave kao i bijela; zbog toga je snimao filmove namijenjene isključivo crnoj publici koji su poslije postali poznati kao "race filmovi". Micheaux je postao njihov komercijalno najuspješniji autor; historičari su ih kasnije hvalili zbog socijalnog angažmana.

Djela

Filmografija

The Homesteader (1919) Within Our Gates (1920) The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920) The Brute (1920) A Son of Satan (1922) The Dungeon (1922) The Gunsaulus Mystery (1922) The Virgin of the Seminole (1922) Deceit (1923) Uncle Jasper's Will (1923) Birthright (1924 film) (1924) Body and Soul (1924) Marcus Garland (1925)

The Spider's Web (1926) The Conjure Woman (1926), adaptacija romana čiji je autor Charles W. Chesnutt The Millionaire (1927) The House Behind the Cedars (1927), adaptacija romana čiji je autor Charles W. Chesnutt When Men Betray (1928) Thirty Years Later (1928) Wages of Sin (1929) Darktown Revue (1930) A Daughter of the Congo (1930) Easy Street (1930) The Exile (1931) Black Magic (1932) Ten Minutes to Live (1932)

Veiled Aristocrats (1932) Ten Minutes to Kill (1933) The Girl From Chicago (1933) Harlem After Midnight (1934) Lem Hawkins' Confession (1935) također pod naslovom Murder in Harlem Temptation (1936) Underworld (1936) God's Step Children (1938) Swing! (1938) Birthright (1939 film) (1939) Lying Lips (1939) The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940) The Betrayal (1948)

Bibliografija

• Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer. Lincoln, Nebraska: Woodruff Press. 1913. OCLC 254051406. 
• The Forged Note. Lincoln, Nebraska: Western Book Supply Company. 1915. OCLC 2058028. 
• The Homesteader: A Novel. Sioux City, Iowa: Western Book Supply Company. 1917. OCLC 10616358. 
• The Wind from Nowhere. New York: Book Supply Company. 1941. OCLC 682477. 
• The Case of Mrs. Wingate. New York: Book Supply Company. 1944. OCLC 5541463. 
• The Story of Dorothy Stanfield. New York: Book Supply Company. 1946. OCLC 300792169. 
• Masquerade, a Historical Novel. New York: Book Supply Company. 1947. OCLC 300739700. 

Literatura

• Bowser, Pearl; Gaines, Jane; Musser, Charles, ur. (2001). Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253339944. 
• Green, Ronald J (2000). Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana UP. OCLC 237396790. 
• Lupack, Barbara Tepa (2004). "Black Pioneer: Oscar Micheaux." In: Homo Narrans. Texts and Essays in Honor of Jerome Klinkowitz. Ed. Zygmunt Mazur and Richard Utz. Cracow: Jagiellonian University Press. pp. 125–37 ISBN 83-233-1896-4.
• Lupack, Barbara Tepa (2002). Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema: From Micheaux to Morrison. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. ISBN 1-58046-103-4. 
• McGilligan, Patrick (2007). Oscar Micheaux, the Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 9780061982156. 
• VanEpps-Taylor, Betti Carol (1999). Oscar Micheaux: Dakota Homesteader, Author, Pioneer Film Maker: a Biography. Rapid City, SD: Dakota West. OCLC 49260537. 
• Yenser, Thomas (1933). Who's Who in Colored America: 1930-1931-1932. Brooklyn: T. Yenser. OCLC 26073112. 

Vanjske veze

• Djela čiji je autor Oscar Micheaux na Projektu Gutenberg
• Oscar Micheaux na sajtu IMDb
• Oscar Micheaux web site, Barton County Arts Council in Great Bend, Kansas
• Bibliography of books and articles about Micheaux, UC Berkeley Media Resources Center
• "Black Cinema: Micheaux Must Go On," an article about Micheaux by Time film critic Richard Corliss
• Stace England & The Salt Kings, Original song "Within Our Gates", with Film Clips
• Oscar Micheaux commemorative stamp, USPS