Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Micheaux v. Griffith
2. Micheaux's Class Position
3. Twoness and Micheaux's Style
4. Negative Images
5. The Middle Path
6. Middle?Class Cinema
7. White Financing
8. Stereotype and Caricature
9. Revising Caricature
10. Interrogating Caricature as Entertainment
11. Interrogating False Uplift
12. Passing and Film Style
13. Racial Loyalty
14. Micheaux and Cinema Today
Appendix One: On Class and the Classical
Appendix Two: Filmography
Appendix Three: Selections from the Black Press
Appendix Four: Bibliography
Notes
Index

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A critical examination of the career of Oscar Micheaux.

About the Author

J. Ronald Green is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of History of Art at Ohio State University. His writings on Micheaux and other topics have appeared in journals such as Film Quarterly, Griffithiana, Black Film Review, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Journal of Film and Video, Cinema Journal, Afterimage, and Aperture, and in various anthologies, including Diawara's Black American Cinema.

Reviews

"A good deal of Straight Lick by J. Ronald Green is dedicated to making a case for [Micheaux's] later films, representing Micheaux as an auteur whose political and aesthetic agenda is evident across the range of his work... For Green Micheaux's films were actually populist efforts to establish a new kind of cinema for the black middle classes; they offered African American audiences low production values which nevertheless strove to make visible the transformational possibilities of grassroots film-making" - Times Literary Supplement, 19 January 2001