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Uplift Cinema
Allyson Nadia Field
其他書名
The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity
出版
Duke University Press
, 2015-05-22
主題
Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
ISBN
0822375559
9780822375555
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=EsPFCQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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In
Uplift Cinema
, 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
The New Era
, which was an antiracist response to D. W. Griffith's
The Birth of a Nation
. 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.