Uplift cinema : the emergence of African American film and the possibility of Black modernity /
Field, Allyson Nadia, 1976-
Uplift cinema : the emergence of African American film and the possibility of Black modernity / Allyson Nadia Field. - Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015. - xxi, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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.
9780822358817 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2014046259
African Americans in the motion picture industry--History--20th century.
African Americans in motion pictures--History--20th century.
PN 1995.9 / F453u 2015
791.43/652996073
Uplift cinema : the emergence of African American film and the possibility of Black modernity / Allyson Nadia Field. - Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015. - xxi, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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.
9780822358817 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2014046259
African Americans in the motion picture industry--History--20th century.
African Americans in motion pictures--History--20th century.
PN 1995.9 / F453u 2015
791.43/652996073