Uplift cinema : the emergence of African American film and the possibility of black modernity / Allyson Nadia Field.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Field, Allyson Nadia, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in the motion picture industry--History--20th century.

African Americans in the motion picture industry.

African Americans in motion pictures--History--20th century.

African Americans in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>Allyson Nadia Field recovers the forgotten body of African American filmmaking from the 1910s which she calls uplift cinema. These films were part of the racial uplift project, which emphasized education, respectability, and self-sufficiency, and weren't only responses to racist representations of African Americans in other films.</div>

Contents:

The aesthetics of uplift: the Hampton-Tuskegee idea and the possibility of failure

"To show the industrial progress of the Negro along industrial lines?" : uplift cinema entrepreneurs at Tuskegee Institute, 1909-1913

"Pictorial sermons" : the campaign films of Hampton Institute, 1913-1915

"A vicious and hurtful play" : the Birth of a Nation and the new era, 1915

To "encourage and uplift" : entrepreneurial uplift cinema.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822358817

0822358816

OCLC:

899275438