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Investigates how progressivism structured many aspects of understudied era of cinema. Caught between the older model of short film and the emerging classic era,
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In Uplift Cinema, Allyson Nadia Field recovers the significant yet forgotten legacy of African American filmmaking in the 1910s. Like the racial uplift project,
African Americans and Popular Culture
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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