Constructing An African-American Film History In the Absence of Films: Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity, by Allyson Nadia Field Tanya Goldman July 2016 Book Reviews Allyson Nadia Field’s Uplift Cinema excavates the lost history of African-American filmmaking in the first half of the 1910s, uncovering a surprisingly diverse body of genres – from local film and sponsored pro...
Rerouting Early Cinema History: Education in the School of Dreams: Travelogues and Early Nonfiction Film by Jennifer Lynn Peterson Tanya Goldman March 2015 Book Reviews In the first decade of the twentieth century, moving images were a ubiquitous popular culture form, a fixture of fairgrounds, vaudeville houses, and emergent stand-alone nickelodeon venues. As one of many “chea...
