the emergence of African American film and the possibility of Black modernity Field, Allyson Nadia 1976- creator text ncu Durham London Duke University Press 2015 monographic eng

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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. Allyson Nadia Field. African Americans in the motion picture industry History 20th century African Americans in motion pictures History 20th century PN 1995.9 F453u 2015 791.43/652996073 9780822358817 (pbk. : alk. paper) 2014046259 160902 20230410130627.0 123074