Uplift cinema : the emergence of African American film and the possibility of Black modernity
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Published
Durham ; Duke University Press, 2015.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xxi, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index.
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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. --From publisher description.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Field, A. N. (2015). Uplift cinema: the emergence of African American film and the possibility of Black modernity . Duke University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Field, Allyson Nadia, 1976-. 2015. Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity. Duke University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Field, Allyson Nadia, 1976-. Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity Duke University Press, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Field, Allyson Nadia. Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity Duke University Press, 2015.
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