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Cinema and Media Studies

Allyson Nadia Field is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies. Her research investigates race and representation in interdisciplinary contexts surrounding cinema. Her primary research interest is African American film, both silent-era and more contemporary filmmaking practices. She is the author of Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity (Duke University Press, 2015).