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Article: Writing Himself Into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences.(Book Review)
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- Film Criticism
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- March 22, 2003
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by Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2000 288 pp.; $20.00, paper
This is an important and impressive book, a broadly and deeply researched examination of Micheaux's work, in the face of the difficulties of doing research on a filmmaker whose forty films only yield three surviving prints. It is a richly interdisciplinary critical text in its scope and methodology: its approaches are drawn from cultural studies, film studies, ethnic studies, and what the authors call a "reception-oriented history" (xix). The book's authors are as effective at broad-stroking the historical context of Micheaux's work and the community that viewed it as they ...