Uplift cinema: the emergence of African American film and the possibility of black modernity

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 Insti...

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Main Author: Field, Allyson Nadia 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham Duke University Press 2015
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Summary: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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 322 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9780822375555
0822375559