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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/
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Revisiting [As it Were] the "Negro Problem" in The Birth of a Nation: Looking Back and in the Present / Michael T. Martin
Part I: National/Transnational in Historical Time
1. Birth of a Nation's Long Century / Cara Caddoo
2. Great Moments From The Birth of a Nation: Collecting and Privately Screening Small Gauge Versions / Andy Uhrich
3. D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation: Transnational and Historical Perspectives / Melvyn Stokes
4. Defining National Identity: The Birth of a Nation From America to South Africa / Peter Davis
5. Is Birth of a Nation a Western? / Alex Lichtenstein
Part II: Representational and Rhetorical Strategies
6. Serial Melodramas of Black and White: The Birth of a Nation and Within Our Gates / Linda Williams
7. The Rhetoric of Historical Representation in Griffith's The Birth of a Nation / Lawrence Howe
Part III: Cinematic Iterations in the Present
8. Something Else Besides a Western: Django Unchained's Generic Miscegenations / Paula Massood
9. 12 Years a Slave and The Birth of a Nation: Two Moments in Representing Race / Julia Lesage
10. Engineering Different Equations in the Wake of Birth of a Nation: Blackface and Racial Politics in Bamboozled and Dear White People / Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris
11. Race, Space, Sexuality, and Suffering in The Birth of a Nation and Get Hard / David C. Wall
12. Anger or Laughter? The Dialectics of Response in The Birth of a Nation / Chuck Kleinhans
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