Straight Lick : The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux

One of the most original and successful filmmakers, Oscar Micheaux was born into a rural, working-class, African-American family in mid-America in 1884. Micheaux's work was founded upon the concern for class mobility, or uplift, for African Americans. This book is a critical assessment of Micheaux's accomplishment in the art of cinema.

• | : J. Ronald Green
• | Publisher: Indiana University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 22, 2000
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0253337534
• | ISBN-13: 9780253337535