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Uplift Cinema : The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity /

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 f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Field, Allyson Nadia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2015]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. THE AESTHETICS OF UPLIFT
  • 2. "TO SHOW THE INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS OF THE NEGRO ALONG INDUSTRIAL LINES"
  • 3. "PICTORIAL SERMONS"
  • 4. "A VICIOUS AND HURTFUL PLAY"
  • 5. TO "ENCOURAGE AND UPLIFT"
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index