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 and narrative innovations and a box
office hit with film audiences, it provoked African American
protest in 1915 for racially offensive content. In this collection
of essays, contributors explore Griffith's film as text, artifact,
and cultural legacy and place it into both the historical and
transnational contexts of the first half of the 1900s and its
resonances with current events in America, such as
#BlackLivesMatter, #HollywoodSoWhite, and #OscarsSoWhite movements.
Through studies of the film's reception, formal innovations in
visual storytelling, and comparisons with contemporary movies, this
work challenges the idea the United States has moved beyond racial
problems and highlights the role of film and representation in the
continued struggle for equality. This title is also available as an
Open Access edition online at
https://iu.pressbooks.pub/thebirthofanation/
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