TY  - BOOK
AU  - Field,Allyson Nadia
TI  - Uplift cinema: the emergence of African American film and the possibility of Black modernity 
SN  - 9780822358817 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - PN 1995.9 F453u 2015
U1  - 791.43/652996073 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Durham, London
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - African Americans in the motion picture industry
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - African Americans in motion pictures
N1  - 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
ER  -