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Uplift cinema : the emergence of African American film and the possibility of Black modernity /

Allyson Nadia Field recovers the forgotten body of African American filmmaking from the 1910s which she calls uplift cinema. These films were part of the racial uplift project, which emphasized education, respectability, and self-sufficiency, and weren't only responses to racist representations...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Field, Allyson Nadia, 1976- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.
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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.