The birth of a nation : the cinematic past in the present /
"Over one hundred years since it premiered on cinema screens, D.W. Griffith's controversial photoplay The Birth of a Nation continues to influence American film production and to have relevance for race relations in the United States. While lauded at the time of its release for its visual...
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Revisiting (as it were) the "Negro problem" in The birth of a nation : looking back and in the present / Michael T. Martin
- The birth of a nation's long century / Cara Caddoo
- Great moments from The birth of a nation : collecting and privately screening small gauge versions / Andy Uhrich
- D.W. Griffith's The birth of a nation : transnational and historical perspectives / Melvyn Stokes
- Defining national identity : The birth of a nation from America to South Africa / Peter Davis
- Comment : is The birth of a nation a Western? / Alex Lichtenstein
- Serial melodramas of black and white : The birth of a nation and within our gates / Linda Williams
- The rhetoric of historical representation in Griffith's The birth of a nation / Lawrence Howe
- Something else besides a Western : Django unchained's generic miscegenations / Paula Massood
- 12 years a slave and The birth of a nation : two moments in representing race / Julia Lesage
- Engineering different equations in the wake of The birth of a nation : blackface and racial politics in Bamboozled and Dear white people / Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris
- Race, space, sexuality, and suffering in The birth of a nation and Get hard / David C. Wall
- Anger or laughter? the dialectics of response to The birth of a nation / Chuck Kleinhans.
