Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux Book

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