the emergence of African American film and the possibility of black modernity /
Allyson Nadia Field
xxi, 322 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index
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
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African Americans in motion pictures-- History-- 20th century
African Americans in the motion picture industry-- History-- 20th century