{"product_id":"9780822375555","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.","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070080467184,"sku":"9780822375555","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780822375555_p0.jpg?v=1763756710","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780822375555","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}