Uplift cinema: the emergence of African American film and the possibility of black modernity

2016/09/26 by Matthew A. Feltman · 1 voice
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #African history and culture studies #Cinema and Media Studies #Race, History, and American Society

paper · doi:10.1080/17460654.2016.1211515

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Abstract

"Uplift cinema: the emergence of African American film and the possibility of black modernity." Early Popular Visual Culture, 14(4), pp. 424–425

Discussions

• From 2016, Matthew A. Feltman reviews Allyson Nadia Field’s book Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity (2015): doi.org/10.1080/1746... Image cou [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]

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