Pearl Bowser is founder and director of African Diaspora Images, a collection of historical and contemporary African American and African films and memorabilia. She is author (with Louise Spence) of Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences. Jane Gaines is Professor of Film at Columbia University and the author of two award-winning books, Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law, and Fire and Desire: Mixed Race Movies in the Silent Era. Charles Musser is Professor of American Studies and Film Studies at Yale University. His books include The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 and Edison Motion Pictures, 1890¿1900: An Annotated Filmography.
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Contents The Touring Package: Programs and Credits Acknowledgments Introduction: Oscar Micheaux and Race Movies of the Silent Period / Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser I. Overviews 1. Black Silence and the Politics of Representation / Clyde R. Taylor 2. The Notion of Treatment: Black Aesthetics and Film / based on an interview with Peter Hessli and additional contributions from Pearl Bowser, A. J. Jafa 3. From Shadows 'n Shufflin' to Spotlights and Cinema: The Lafayette Players, 1915-1932 / Sr. Francesca Thompson 4. The African-American Press and Race Movies, 1909-1929 / Charlene Regester II. Oscar Micheaux 5. Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates: The Possibilities for Alternative Visions / Michele Wallace 6. Within Our Gates: From Race Melodrama to Opportunity Narrative / Jane Gaines 7. Oscar Micheaux's The Symbol of the Unconquered: Text and Context / Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence 8. To Redream the Dreams of White Playwrights: Reappropriation and Resistance in Oscar Micheaux's Body and Soul / Charles Musser 9. Black Patriarch on the Prairie: National Identity and Black Manhood in the Early Novels of Oscar Micheaux / Jayna Brown 10. Telling White Lies: Oscar Micheaux and Charles W. Chesnutt / Corey Creekmur III. Micheaux's Contemporaries 11. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: The Flying Ace, the Norman Company, and the Micheaux Connection / Phyllis Klotman 12. Colored Players Film Corporation An Alternative to Micheaux / Charles Musser Lost, then Found: The Wedding Scene from The Scar of Shame (1929) / Pearl Bowser 13. Richard D. Maurice and the Maurice Film Company / Pearl Bowser and Charles Musser 14. Cinematic Foremothers: Zora Neale Hurston and Eloyce King Patrick Gist / Gloria J. Gibson Appendix A. The Reemergence of Oscar Micheaux: A Timeline and Bibliographic Essay / J. Ronald Green Appendix B. An Oscar Micheaux Filmography: From the Silents through His Transition to Sound (1919¿1931) / Compiled by Charles Musser, Corey Creekmur, Pearl Bowser, Charlene Regester, Ron Green, and Louise Spence Appendix C. A Colored Players Film Corporation Filmography / Compiled by Charles Musser Appendix D. Norman Film Manufacturing Company: Production and Theatrical Release Dates for All-Black-Cast Films / Compiled by Phyllis Klotman Notes Bibliography / Compiled by Kristen Barnes, Jane Gaines, Fred Neumann, and Hank Okazaki About the Contributors Credits Index
Contents The Touring Package: Programs and Credits Acknowledgments Introduction: Oscar Micheaux and Race Movies of the Silent Period / Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser I. Overviews 1. Black Silence and the Politics of Representation / Clyde R. Taylor 2. The Notion of Treatment: Black Aesthetics and Film / based on an interview with Peter Hessli and additional contributions from Pearl Bowser, A. J. Jafa 3. From Shadows 'n Shufflin' to Spotlights and Cinema: The Lafayette Players, 1915-1932 / Sr. Francesca Thompson 4. The African-American Press and Race Movies, 1909-1929 / Charlene Regester II. Oscar Micheaux 5. Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates: The Possibilities for Alternative Visions / Michele Wallace 6. Within Our Gates: From Race Melodrama to Opportunity Narrative / Jane Gaines 7. Oscar Micheaux's The Symbol of the Unconquered: Text and Context / Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence 8. To Redream the Dreams of White Playwrights: Reappropriation and Resistance in Oscar Micheaux's Body and Soul / Charles Musser 9. Black Patriarch on the Prairie: National Identity and Black Manhood in the Early Novels of Oscar Micheaux / Jayna Brown 10. Telling White Lies: Oscar Micheaux and Charles W. Chesnutt / Corey Creekmur III. Micheaux's Contemporaries 11. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: The Flying Ace, the Norman Company, and the Micheaux Connection / Phyllis Klotman 12. Colored Players Film Corporation An Alternative to Micheaux / Charles Musser Lost, then Found: The Wedding Scene from The Scar of Shame (1929) / Pearl Bowser 13. Richard D. Maurice and the Maurice Film Company / Pearl Bowser and Charles Musser 14. Cinematic Foremothers: Zora Neale Hurston and Eloyce King Patrick Gist / Gloria J. Gibson Appendix A. The Reemergence of Oscar Micheaux: A Timeline and Bibliographic Essay / J. Ronald Green Appendix B. An Oscar Micheaux Filmography: From the Silents through His Transition to Sound (1919¿1931) / Compiled by Charles Musser, Corey Creekmur, Pearl Bowser, Charlene Regester, Ron Green, and Louise Spence Appendix C. A Colored Players Film Corporation Filmography / Compiled by Charles Musser Appendix D. Norman Film Manufacturing Company: Production and Theatrical Release Dates for All-Black-Cast Films / Compiled by Phyllis Klotman Notes Bibliography / Compiled by Kristen Barnes, Jane Gaines, Fred Neumann, and Hank Okazaki About the Contributors Credits Index
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