Beschreibung:
Allyson Nadia Field is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. The Aesthetics of Uplift: The Hampton-Tuskegee Idea and the Possibility of Failure 33 2. "To Show the Industrial Progress of the Negro Along Industrial Lines": Uplift Cinema Entrepreneurs at Tuskegee Institute, 1909–1913 83 3. "Pictorial Sermons": The Campaign Films of Hampton Institute, 1913–1915 121 4. "A Vicious and Hurtful Play": The Birth of a Nation and The New Era, 1915 151 5. To "Encourage and Uplift": Entrepreneurial Uplift Cinema 185 Epilogue 245 Notes 259 Bibliography 299 Index 311