Uplift cinema
Subtitle: the emergence of African American film and the possibility of Black modernity
By: Allyson Nadia Field
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780822359074; 9780822358817
Subjects: African Americans in the motion picture industry; African Americans in motion pictures; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index.
Table of contents: title: The aesthetics of uplift: the Hampton-Tuskegee idea and the possibility of failure; title: "To show the industrial progress of the Negro along industrial lines?" : uplift cinema entrepreneurs at Tuskegee Institute, 1909-1913; title: "Pictorial sermons" : the campaign films of Hampton Institute, 1913-1915; title: "A vicious and hurtful play" : the Birth of a Nation and the new era, 1915; title: To "encourage and uplift" : entrepreneurial uplift cinema.