Allyson Nadia Field
Biographic Data
| ID | 6253979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allyson Nadia Field |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allyson Nadia |
| FAMILY NAME | Field |
| SIGNATURE | FIELD A N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Doing More with Less
Feminist scholars are increasingly embracing speculative methods in the writing of film and media history. This article aims to encourage the practice of informed speculation as a method by outlining the arguments for the speculative turn and cautioning against the potential risks attendant to speculative approaches. The essay offers an invitation to embrace forms of imaginative, creative, and experimental writing of film and media history while …
Histories and Futures of Black Feminist Film Curation
Highlighting past and present film curatorial and programming projects by Black women, the roundtable conversation printed here featured Ina Archer, Cheryl Chisholm, Monica Freeman, Jennifer Lawson, O.Funmilayo Makarah, and Yvonne Welbon. Moderated by Allyson Nadia Field and Hayley O’Malley, the conversation began at the 2023 Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts in Chicago and offered an occasion for curators of Black feminist film and media work…
The Cinema of Racialized Attraction(s)
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Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film
John Henry Goes to Carnegie Hall
Drawing on surviving accounts of screening and extant photographic materials, this essay focuses on the formal compositions of the films created for southern black agricultural and industrial institutes' publicity campaigns before and after the incendiary release of The Birth of a Nation.To date, there has been no sustained study of the role of film in the publicity projects of Hampton or Tuskegee.However, this is a crucial moment in the history …
Hurlements en faveur de Sade
Asger Jorn writes in his introduction to Debord's Contre Le Cinema that Debord's films like long experimental notes on the development of the general theory of deetournement (6).2 The Situationist practice of ditournement was one of the most important and widespread techniques employed in their artistic and political endeavors, reaching its apex during the events of May 1968. De'tournement comprises both an aesthetic and political critique. The t…
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Hurlements en faveur de Sade
Asger Jorn writes in his introduction to Debord's Contre Le Cinema that Debord's films like long experimental notes on the development of the general theory of deetournement (6).2 The Situationist practice of ditournement was one of the most important and widespread techniques employed in their artistic and political endeavors, reaching its apex during the events of May 1968. De'tournement comprises both an aesthetic and political critique. The t…
John Henry Goes to Carnegie Hall
Drawing on surviving accounts of screening and extant photographic materials, this essay focuses on the formal compositions of the films created for southern black agricultural and industrial institutes' publicity campaigns before and after the incendiary release of The Birth of a Nation.To date, there has been no sustained study of the role of film in the publicity projects of Hampton or Tuskegee.However, this is a crucial moment in the history …
Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film
The Cinema of Racialized Attraction(s)
.
Histories and Futures of Black Feminist Film Curation
Highlighting past and present film curatorial and programming projects by Black women, the roundtable conversation printed here featured Ina Archer, Cheryl Chisholm, Monica Freeman, Jennifer Lawson, O.Funmilayo Makarah, and Yvonne Welbon. Moderated by Allyson Nadia Field and Hayley O’Malley, the conversation began at the 2023 Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts in Chicago and offered an occasion for curators of Black feminist film and media work…
Doing More with Less
Feminist scholars are increasingly embracing speculative methods in the writing of film and media history. This article aims to encourage the practice of informed speculation as a method by outlining the arguments for the speculative turn and cautioning against the potential risks attendant to speculative approaches. The essay offers an invitation to embrace forms of imaginative, creative, and experimental writing of film and media history while …
Cinema and Media Studies (6 works) · Movie theater (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Filmmaking (2 works) · History (2 works) · Hollywood (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works)