*Oscar Micheaux*Kansas Humanities Council

Oscar Micheaux Golden Anniversary
March 24-25, 2001 — Great Bend, Kansas

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Prof. J. Ronald Green

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Ron Green

Presentation
Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux

About J. Ronald Green
Ron Green is professor of film studies in the Department of History of Art at the Ohio State University. Green's most recent research centers on African-American independent filmmaker, Oscar Micheaux. Green's first book on Micheaux, Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux was released by Indiana University Press in September 2000; his second book, Visions of Uplift: The Films of Oscar Micheaux, is in contract with Indiana and will be delivered in June, 2001. His writings on Micheaux and on other topics--including media arts policy and independent documentary and avant-garde films, video, photography, installation, and digital arts--have appeared in journals such as Film Quarterly, Griffithiana, Black Film Review, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Journal of Film and Video, Dialogue, Cinema Journal, Aperture, and Afterimage, and in various anthologies including Diawara's Black American Cinema.

Green has also served as president of the National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, trustee of the American Film Institute, chair of the department of photography and cinema at the Ohio State University, and assistant director of the Media Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts.


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