In Uplift Cinema, 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 The New Era, which was an antiracist response to
D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation. 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.
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