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Within Our Gates is a 1920 American silent race drama film produced, written and directed by Oscar Micheaux.
Within Our Gates: Directed by Oscar Micheaux. With Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin, Jack Chenault. Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.
Nov 17, 2016 · The oldest known surviving film made by an African-American director, portraying the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century.
Southern negro Sylvia Landry visits her cousin Alma in the north, where there is less racial prejudice than in her home town of Piney Woods in the deep south, and is anxiously awaiting her fiancé, Conrad.
The virtual erasure of Within Our Gates for almost half a century and the elevation of D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation to the status of cinematic masterpiece are telling illustrations of the politics of race and power in twentieth century American popular culture.
Oct 17, 2023 · “Within Our Gates” is a groundbreaking silent film directed by Oscar Micheaux in 1920. The movie tells the story of Sylvia Landry, a young African American woman who embarks on a mission to raise funds for a struggling school for black children in the South.
The story of writer, producer, and director Oscar Micheaux is that of a ghost industry that might have been—in other words, an American film industry with plenty of latitude, opportunity and...
Jan 28, 2016 · Oscar Micheaux’s bold, forceful melodrama, from 1919—the oldest surviving feature by a black American director—unfolds the vast political dimensions of intimate romantic crises.
Jul 26, 2023 · Evelyn Preer and Jack Chenault in Within Our Gates. The story of writer, producer, and director Oscar Micheaux is that of a ghost industry that might have been—in other words, an American...
Dec 31, 2014 · Within Our Gates (1920) is a silent race film that dramatically expresses the racial situation in America during the violent years of Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration, and the emergence of the "New Negro".
