D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All TimeOxford University Press, 15 янв. 2008 г. - Всего страниц: 432 In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie. By going back to the original archives, particularly the NAACP and D. W. Griffith Papers, Stokes explodes many of the myths surrounding The Birth of a Nation (1915). Yet the story that remains is fascinating: the longest American film of its time, Griffith's film incorporated many new features, including the first full musical score compiled for an American film. It was distributed and advertised by pioneering methods that would quickly become standard. Through the high prices charged for admission and the fact that it was shown, at first, only in "live" theaters with orchestral accompaniment, Birth played a major role in reconfiguring the American movie audience by attracting more middle-class patrons. But if the film was a milestone in the history of cinema, it was also undeniably racist. Stokes shows that the darker side of this classic movie has its origins in the racist ideas of Thomas Dixon, Jr. and Griffith's own Kentuckian background and earlier film career. The book reveals how, as the years went by, the campaign against the film became increasingly successful. In the 1920s, for example, the NAACP exploited the fact that the new Ku Klux Klan, which used Griffith's film as a recruiting and retention tool, was not just anti-black, but also anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish, as a way to mobilize new allies in opposition to the film. This crisply written book sheds light on both the film's racism and the aesthetic brilliance of Griffith's filmmaking. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the cinema. |
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... cities to ban it were usually short and fruitless: the film's producers applied to the courts for an injunction to overturn the ban, and such injunctions were usually quickly issued.11 The difficulty facing the NAACP and other protest ...
... cities to ban it were usually short and fruitless: the film's producers applied to the courts for an injunction to overturn the ban, and such injunctions were usually quickly issued.11 The difficulty facing the NAACP and other protest ...
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... city, state, or federal level—that related directly to it and at least eight new censorship boards were specifically designed to act against it.24 Since it apotheosized the Ku Klux Klan of the Reconstruction period, Birth would become ...
... city, state, or federal level—that related directly to it and at least eight new censorship boards were specifically designed to act against it.24 Since it apotheosized the Ku Klux Klan of the Reconstruction period, Birth would become ...
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... City Council take no action to prevent the exhibition of the film.4 The first sign that something out of the ordinary might be about to happen came with the unmistakable sound, rising above the noise of the crowd, of a large symphony ...
... City Council take no action to prevent the exhibition of the film.4 The first sign that something out of the ordinary might be about to happen came with the unmistakable sound, rising above the noise of the crowd, of a large symphony ...
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... city. Elsie and Ben are shown looking toward the city. The final title appears: “Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever!”29 The predictions of the doomsayers at the intermission proved inaccurate and Karl Brown's fears ...
... city. Elsie and Ben are shown looking toward the city. The final title appears: “Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever!”29 The predictions of the doomsayers at the intermission proved inaccurate and Karl Brown's fears ...
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3 David Wark Griffith | 55 |
4 Making The Birth of a Nation | 81 |
5 Transforming the American Movie Audience | 111 |
6 Fighting a Vicious Film | 129 |
7 Griffiths View of History | 171 |
8 After Birth | 227 |
Conclusion | 277 |
Notes | 287 |
Bibliography | 373 |
Index | 395 |
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