Marcus_Garland

Marcus Garland

Marcus Garland

1925 film by Oscar Micheaux

Marcus Garland is a 1925 race film directed, written, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux. The film offers a harsh parody on the rise and fall of Marcus Garvey, the Black nationalist and pan-Africanist leader.[1] Few details on the film’s production survive, and some sources place its release in 1928.[2]

No print of the film is known to exist and it is presumed to be a lost film.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Smith, Valerie, Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video, Rutgers University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8135-2314-1.
  2. [2]
    Green, J. Ronald, Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux, Indiana University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-253-33753-4, p. 247.
  3. [3]
    Gevinson, Alan, Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960, University of California Press, 1997, ISBN 0-520-20964-8, p. 639.


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