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Uplift cinema : the emergence of African American film and the possibility of black modernity
book
Record #
FRL-129991
Object Name
book
Title
Uplift cinema : the emergence of African American film and the possibility of black modernity
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Director(s)
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Country
USA
Language(s)
English
Publishing Info.
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2015
Version
Details
xxi, 322 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Call Number
PN 1995.9.B585 F453 2015
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DESCRIPTION
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
SUBJECTS
AFRICAN AMERICANS IN MOTION PICTURES
AFRICAN AMERICANS IN MOTION PICTURES - HISTORY - 20TH CENTURY
AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY - HISTORY - 20TH CENTURY
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