{"product_id":"uplift-cinema-allyson-nadia-field-9780822358817","title":"Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity","description":"In \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Allyson Nadia Field\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822358816\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822358817\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.86h x 5.99w x 0.49d","brand":"Allyson Nadia Field","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992505516287,"sku":"9780822358817","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ea31469c-ad7b-45fd-aaa7-2896f453d103.jpg?v=1683319307","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/uplift-cinema-allyson-nadia-field-9780822358817","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}