01239cam a2200217 i 4500 123074 20230410130627.0 160902s2015 ncua 000 0 eng 2014046259 9780822358817 (pbk. : alk. paper) PN 1995.9 F453u 2015 791.43/652996073 Field, Allyson Nadia, 1976- Uplift cinema : the emergence of African American film and the possibility of Black modernity / Allyson Nadia Field. Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015. xxi, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm 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. African Americans in the motion picture industry History 20th century. African Americans in motion pictures History 20th century. lcc bk 77385 77385 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 1 0 PN 1995.9 F453u 2015 00000109519 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 bk