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Uplift Cinema
  • Language: en

Uplift Cinema

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.

L.A. Rebellion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 483

L.A. Rebellion

L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema is the first book dedicated to the films and filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion, a group of African, Caribbean, and African American independent film and video artists that formed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the 1970s and 1980s. The group—including Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, Haile Gerima, Billy Woodberry, Jamaa Fanaka, and Zeinabu irene Davis—shared a desire to create alternatives to the dominant modes of narrative, style, and practice in American cinema, works that reflected the full complexity of Black experiences. This landmark collection of essays and oral histories examines the creative output of the L.A. Rebellion, co...

Meet Allyson Felix
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 35

Meet Allyson Felix

US track-and-field superstar Allyson Felix competed in five Olympic Games. In 2021, Felix won her 11th Olympic track-and-field medal, more than any other athlete in US history. Explore her life on and off the track.

Allyson's Beau
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 394

Allyson's Beau

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-10-30
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  • Publisher: Author House

Allyson’s Beau is a story about one young woman’s attempt to obtain a Disney movie type life. Allyson, married young, and with her new husband, set off to make all her dreams come true. After all, what did she have to lose? She immediately thrusts herself into the world of horses hoping to become someone special. As mere wishes meet concrete reality, “She didn't know what she feared more, riding Beau or arousing Barbara's anger." She chooses a scrawny, uncoordinated, bay foal, who becomes her reason for continuing in the rough and rugged horse industry that is determined to wear her down. As desperation drives her dream, Allyson not only gathers a variety of friends and foes, but meets her true self in the process. Her colt, her Beau, is not the only love in her life, something she often forgets. Join Allyson and her Beau, and enter into the world of the Morgan Show Horse. Through her eyes, learn what it takes to make a dream become reality.

Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film

Although overlooked by most narratives of American cinema history, films made for purposes outside of theatrical entertainment dominated twentieth-century motion picture production. This volume adds to the growing study of nontheatrical films by focusing on the ways filmmakers developed and audiences encountered ideas about race, identity, politics, and community outside the borders of theatrical cinema. The contributors to Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film examine the place and role of race in educational films, home movies, industry and government films, anthropological films, and church films as well as other forms of nontheatrical filmmaking. From filmic depictions of Native ...

Halloween Ends: The Official Movie Novelization
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Halloween Ends: The Official Movie Novelization

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-10-18
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  • Publisher: Titan Books

The official novelization of the highly anticipated finale of the iconic Halloween horror franchise. The town of Haddonfield still lives in the shadow of Michael Myers. It has been four years since he mysteriously vanished. As Laurie attempts to put the tragedies of her past behind her, Allyson is desperate to get away from life with her grandmother in the dead-end town scorched by bloodshed. When local outcast Corey Cunningham discovers the truth of Michael's whereabouts, he inadvertently unleashes a new wave of violence. With Haddonfield once more the backdrop to murderous impulses, Allyson endeavours to escape as Laurie prepares for one final confrontation with her boogeyman.

Biography of Allyson Felix
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 26

Biography of Allyson Felix

WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS AMAZING A HISTORY'S MOST DECORATED OLYMPIC TRACK & FIELD FEMALE ATHLETE? Allyson Michelle Felix OLY is a sprinter from the United States. Felix concentrated in the 200 meter sprint from 2003 to 2013, before transitioning to the 400 meter sprint later in her career. Her racing experience includes the 100-meter dash, four-by-one-hundred-meter relay, and four-by-four-hundred-meter relay. In what would very probably be her final Olympic race, Allyson Felix of the United States created history. On Saturday, the sprinter won gold in the 4-x-400 meter relay. With her 11th career medal, she now holds the record for most medals won by an American in track and field history. She had previously broken the record for the most medals won by a woman in Olympic track and field just one day before. This book contains everything you need to know about her and some interesting hidden facts you didn't know about her. SCROLL UP TO GRAB A COPY!

Fourth Day
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Fourth Day

A dead woman returns. The trap is set. Allyson can’t get caught up in feelings. Not when there’s work to do. The night her phone rings, the voice on the other end changes everything. Drawn into the latest Northwest Counter Terrorism Taskforce case, Allyson has to figure out where her loyalties lie. Sal knows things are changing with the team, but he isn’t sure what’s next for him. As soon as he clears this one last investigation he’ll figure it out. Trouble is, finding Allyson might be the hardest thing he’s ever done. The Northwest Counter Terrorism Taskforce is on the case. *a Christian Romantic Suspense novel*

Sporting Blackness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

Sporting Blackness

Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by representations of Black athletes on screen. By presenting new critical terms, Sheppard analyzes not only “skin in the game,” or how racial representation shapes the genre’s imagery, but also “skin in the genre,” or the formal consequences of blackness on the sport film genre’s modes, codes, and conventions. Through a rich interdisciplinary approach, Sheppard argues that representations of Black sporting bodies contain “critical muscle memories”: embodied, kinesthetic, and cinematic histories that go beyond a film’s plot to index, circulate, and reproduce broader narratives about Black sporting and non-sporting experiences in American society.

Black Women Directors
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 175

Black Women Directors

For far too long, the cultural and historical narratives about film have overlooked the contributions of Black women directors. This book remedies this omission by highlighting the trajectory of the culturally significant work of Black women directors in the U.S., from the under-examined pioneers of the silent era to the contemporary Black women directors in Hollywood.