{"product_id":"uplift-cinema-the-emergence-of-african-american-film-and-the-possibility-of-black-modernity-paperback","title":"Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAllyson Nadia Field\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eUplift Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e, Allyson Nadia Field recovers the significant yet forgotten legacy of African American filmmaking in the 1910s. Like the racial uplift project, this cinema emphasized economic self-sufficiency, education, and respectability as the keys to African American progress. Field discusses films made at the Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes to promote education, as well as the controversial \u003ci\u003eThe New Era\u003c\/i\u003e, which was an antiracist response to D. W. Griffith's \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e. She also shows how Black filmmakers in New York and Chicago engaged with uplift through the promotion of Black modernity. Uplift cinema developed not just as a response to onscreen racism, but constituted an original engagement with the new medium that has had a deep and lasting significance for African American cinema. Although none of these films survived, Field's examination of archival film ephemera presents a method for studying lost films that opens up new frontiers for exploring early film culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllyson Nadia Field is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 8.86 x 5.99 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 08, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51817316843808,"sku":"9780822358817","price":56.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/445767a75ad338b0e34d059b2cb93e14.webp?v=1781100294","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/uplift-cinema-the-emergence-of-african-american-film-and-the-possibility-of-black-modernity-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}