Cinema's Original Sin : : D.W. Griffith, American Racism, and the Rise of Film Culture / / Paul McEwan.
For over a century, cinephiles and film scholars have had to grapple with an ugly artifact that sits at the beginnings of film history. D. W. Griffith’s profoundly racist epic, The Birth of a Nation, inspired controversy and protest at its 1915 release and was defended as both a true history of Reco...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (243 p.) :; 26 b&w photos |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter one A New Art, 1895–1915
- Chapter two Film Art, Intolerance, and Oscar Micheaux, 1915–1925
- Chapter three Little Theatres, MOMA, and the Birth of Art Cinema, 1925–1945
- Chapter four From American History to Film History, 1945–1960
- Chapter five In Search of Legitimacy and Masterpieces: Film Studies in the Academy, 1960–2000
- Chapter six Race, Reception, and Remix in the New Millennium
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index