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

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Field, Allyson Nadia, 1976- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Duke University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Svarta i filmindustrin, USA.
Svarta på film, USA.
Schwarze
Film
African Americans in the motion picture industry.
African Americans in motion pictures.
Noirs americains au cinema > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains dans l'industrie cinematographique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
African Americans in motion pictures > History > 20th century.
African Americans in the motion picture industry > History > 20th century.
USA
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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