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020 _a9780822358817 (pbk. : alk. paper)
050 1 4 _aPN 1995.9
_bF453u 2015
082 0 0 _a791.43/652996073
100 1 _aField, Allyson Nadia,
_d1976-
245 1 0 _aUplift cinema :
_bthe emergence of African American film and the possibility of Black modernity /
_cAllyson Nadia Field.
260 _aDurham ;
_aLondon :
_bDuke University Press,
_c2015.
300 _axxi, 322 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm
505 0 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans in the motion picture industry
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans in motion pictures
_xHistory
_y20th century.
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