Allyson Nadia Field

Allyson Nadia Field is author of Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity (Duke University Press, 2015) and co-editor of Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film (Duke University Press, 2019), and L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (University of California Press, 2015). She is currently working on a book tentatively titled “Minstrelsy-Vaudeville-Cinema: American Popular Culture and Racialized Performance in Early Film,” for which she was named a 2019 Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Field is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.