{"product_id":"uplift-cinema","title":"Uplift Cinema","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eIn \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.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53511025459567,"sku":"9780822358817","price":228.0,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0822358816.jpg?v=1790004757","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/uplift-cinema","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}