Field Uplift Cinema

The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7555-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

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 of African Americans in other films.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Field, Allyson Nadia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction 1

1. The Aesthetics of Uplift: The Hampton-Tuskegee Idea and the Possibility of Failure 33

2. "To Show the Industrial Progress of the Negro Along Industrial Lines": Uplift Cinema Entrepreneurs at Tuskegee Institute, 1909–1913 83

3. "Pictorial Sermons": The Campaign Films of Hampton Institute, 1913–1915 121

4. "A Vicious and Hurtful Play": The Birth of a Nation and The New Era, 1915 151

5. To "Encourage and Uplift": Entrepreneurial Uplift Cinema 185

Epilogue 245

Notes 259

Bibliography 299

Index 311

Über Autor(innen)

Allyson Nadia Field is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.