The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of Africa
In Black City Cinema, Paula Massood shows how popular films reflected the massive social changes that resulted from the Great Migration of African Americans fro
Investigates how progressivism structured many aspects of understudied era of cinema. Caught between the older model of short film and the emerging classic era,
In Uplift Cinema, Allyson Nadia Field recovers the significant yet forgotten legacy of African American filmmaking in the 1910s. Like the racial uplift project,
The African American influence on popular culture is among the most sweeping and lasting this country has seen. Despite a history of institutionalized racism, b