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The Birth of a Nation
D. W. Griffith's 1915 silent-film epic The Birth of a Nation remained as controversial at the end of the twentieth century as at the beginning, largely because of its symp...
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In the following essay, Noble outlines the racist trappings of The Birth of a Nation.
Griffith has one of the great poetic minds of the cinema. He ranks with Chaplin, Von Stroheim and René Clair ...
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In the following essay, Dorris looks back thoughtfully at Griffith's oeuvre.
When the Museum of Modern Art announced its D. W. Griffith retrospective in the spring of 1965, I decided to attend ...
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In the following essay, Dorr surveys key movies, by Griffith and other directors, which were inspired by a filmmaking style known as the "Griffith Tradition."
The first strain of the Ame...
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The Birth of a Nation
Critical Essay by Peter Noble
