Uplift cinema : the emergence of African American film and the possibility of black modernity /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Durham : Duke University Press, 2015. |
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| Summary: | In Uplift Cinema , Allyson Nadia Field recovers the significant yet forgotten legacy of African American filmmaking in the 1910s. Like the racial uplift project, this cinema emphasized economic self-sufficiency, education, and respectability as the keys to African American progress. Field discusses films made at the Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes to promote education, as well as the controversial The New Era , which was an antiracist response to D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation . She also shows how Black filmmakers in New York and Chicago engaged with uplift through the promotion of Black modernity. Uplift cinema developed not just as a response to onscreen racism, but constituted an original engagement with the new medium that has had a deep and lasting significance for African American cinema. Although none of these films survived, Field's examination of archival film ephemera presents a method for studying lost films that opens up new frontiers for exploring early film culture. |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 322 pages : illustrations ; 23cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-310) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822359074 0822359073 9780822358817 0822358816 9780822375555 0822375559 |
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