D W Griffith S 100th Anniversary The Birth Of A Nation

Author : Ira H. Gallen ,Seymour Stern
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Birth of a nation (Motion picture : 1915)
ISBN : 9781460236543

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D.W. Griffith's 100th Anniversary The Birth of a Nation by Ira H. Gallen ,Seymour Stern Pdf

A hundred years have passed since the masterpiece of David Wark Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, first appeared on the screens of America, in the winter of 1915. It demonstrated that the cinema, no less than literature and no less than the stage, could become a topic of serious critical, esthetic, intellectual, political, social, and technical discussion. In this way it brought the motion picture into a position of commanding influence in the social life of the American nation. The denunciation continues, and the storm over the film serves as a barometer of the global conflict, involving forces and issues set in motion by, but no means limited to, race. As Griffith's official biographer, Seymour Stern's main purpose of his book was to assemble, as extensively as possible, the rapidly vanishing record of what happened.

Author : Robert Lang
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813520274

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The Birth of a Nation by Robert Lang Pdf

The birth of a nation follows the lives of two white families divided by, and enduring, the American Civil War, and includes elaborate cameos of historical events such as the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Author : Ira H. Gallen,Seymour Stern
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781460236550

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D.W. Griffith's 100th Anniversary The Birth of a Nation by Ira H. Gallen,Seymour Stern Pdf

A HISTORY OF THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL MOTION PICTURE EVER MADE A hundred years have passed since the masterpiece of David Wark Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, first appeared on the screens of America, in the winter of 1915. It demonstrated that the cinema, no less than literature and no less than the stage, could become a topic of serious critical, esthetic, intellectual, political, social, and technical discussion. In this way it brought the motion picture into a position of commanding influence in the social life of the American nation. The denunciation continues, and the storm over the film serves as a barometer of the global conflict, involving forces and issues set in motion by, but no means limited to, race. From the beginning it touched off several emotionally and politically explosive, interrelated, parallel controversies—controversy over Griffith; controversy over the film; controversy over the subject-matter and its treatment; controversy over the controversy. As Griffith’s official biographer Seymour Sterns main purpose of his book was to assemble, as extensively as possible, the rapidly vanishing record of what happened. You’ll find Stern’s writing on the subject as controversial as the film itself.

Author : Paul McEwan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838718602

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The Birth of a Nation by Paul McEwan Pdf

Portraying the Ku Klux Klan as heroic underdogs, silent epic The Birth of a Nation (1915) is widely considered to be the most controversial film of all time. At once one of US culture's greatest artistic achievements and one of its most abhorrently racist artefacts, it becomes more shocking with every passing year. Comprising a decade of archival research and published on the 100th anniversary of the film's release, this richly detailed study considers both the film's afterlife and the artistic, industrial and moral surroundings in which it was created. Drawing on an unbroken century of production and reception history, Paul McEwan recounts the film's origins and development, Griffith's unique editing and cinematography and the construction of racial identity and fear in the film. Assessing its contribution as an art form, while directly grappling with the complexity of the art-or-racism debate, Paul McEwan shows how The Birth of a Nation has had a central role in the development of film and Film Studies worldwide.

Author : Michael Randall Hurwitz
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1419642642

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D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation by Michael Randall Hurwitz Pdf

Author : Peg A. Lamphier,Rosanne Welch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216061380

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The Civil War on Film by Peg A. Lamphier,Rosanne Welch Pdf

The Civil War on Film will inform high school and college readers interested in Civil War film history on issues that arise when film viewers confuse entertainment with historical accuracy. The nation's years of civil war were painful, destructive, and unpleasant. Yet war films tend to embrace mythologies that erase that historical reality, romanticizing the Civil War. The editors of this volume have little patience for any argument that implies race-based slavery isn't an entirely repugnant economic, political, and cultural institution and that the people who fought to preserve slavery were fighting for a glorious and admirable cause. To that end, The Civil War on Film will open with a timeline and introduction and then explore ten films across decades of cinema history in ten chapters, from Birth of a Nation, which debuted in 1915, to The Free State of Jones, which debuted one hundred and one years later. It will also analyze and critique the myriad of mythologies and ideologies which appear in American Civil War films, including Lost Cause ideation, Black Confederate fictions, Northern Aggression mythologies, and White Savior tropes. It will also suggest the way particular films mirror the time in which they were written and filmed. Further resources will close the volume.

Author : Michael T. Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 0253042356

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The Birth of a Nation by Michael T. Martin Pdf

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. 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.

Author : Allan Bartley
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459506145

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The Ku Klux Klan in Canada by Allan Bartley Pdf

The Ku Klux Klan came to Canada thanks to some energetic American promoters who saw it as a vehicle for getting rich by selling memberships to white, mostly Protestant Canadians. In Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, the Klan found fertile ground for its message of racism and discrimination targeting African Canadians, Jews and Catholics. While its organizers fought with each other to capture the funds received from enthusiastic members, the Klan was a venue for expressions of race hatred and a cover for targeted acts of harassment and violence against minorities. Historian Allan Bartley traces the role of the Klan in Canadian political life in the turbulent years of the 1920s and 1930s, after which its membership waned. But in the 1970s, as he relates, small extremist right- wing groups emerged in urban Canada, and sought to revive the Klan as a readily identifiable identity for hatred and racism. The Ku Klux Klan in Canada tells the little-known story of how Canadians adopted the image and ideology of the Klan to express the racism that has played so large a role in Canadian society for the past hundred years — right up to the present.

Author : Brian Hannan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786498130

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Coming Back to a Theater Near You by Brian Hannan Pdf

In the Silent Era, film reissues were a battle between rival studios--every Mary Pickford new release in 1914 was met with a Pickford re-release. For 50 years after the Silent Era, reissues were a battle between the studios, who considered old movies "found money," and cinema owners, who often saw audiences reject former box office hits. In the mid-1960s, the return of The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)--the second biggest reissue of all time--altered industry perceptions, and James Bond double features pushed the revival market to new heights. In the digital age, reissues have continued to confound the critics. This is the untold hundred-year story of how old movies saved new Hollywood. Covering the booms and busts of a recycling business that became its own industry, the author describes how the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Humphrey Bogart and Alfred Hitchcock won over new generations of audiences, and explores the lasting appeal of films like Napoleon (1927), Gone with the Wind (1939), The Rocky Horror Show (1975) and Blade Runner (1982).

Author : Travis D. Boyce,Winsome M. Chunnu
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781646420032

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Historicizing Fear by Travis D. Boyce,Winsome M. Chunnu Pdf

Historicizing Fear is a historical interrogation of the use of fear as a tool to vilify and persecute groups and individuals from a global perspective, offering an unflinching look at racism, fearful framing, oppression, and marginalization across human history.The book examines fear and Othering from a historical context, providing a better understanding of how power and oppression is used in the present day. Contributors ground their work in the theory of Othering—the reductive action of labeling a person as someone who belongs to a subordinate social category defined as the Other—in relation to historical events, demonstrating that fear of the Other is universal, timeless, and interconnected. Chapters address the music of neo-Nazi white power groups, fear perpetuated through the social construct of black masculinity in a racially hegemonic society, the terror and racial cleansing in early twentieth-century Arkansas, the fear of drug-addicted Vietnam War veterans, the creation of fear by the Tang Dynasty, and more. Timely, provocative, and rigorously researched, Historicizing Fear shows how the Othering of members of different ethnic groups has been used to propagate fear and social tension, justify state violence, and prevent groups or individuals from gaining equality. Broadening the context of how fear of the Other can be used as a propaganda tool, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of history, anthropology, political science, popular culture, critical race issues, social justice, and ethnic studies, as well as the general reader concerned with the fearful framing prevalent in politics. Contributors: Quaylan Allen, Melanie Armstrong, Brecht De Smet, Kirsten Dyck, Adam C. Fong, Jeff Johnson, Łukasz Kamieński, Guy Lancaster, Henry Santos Metcalf, Julie M. Powell, Jelle Versieren

Author : Allyson Hobbs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674368101

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A Chosen Exile by Allyson Hobbs Pdf

Introduction: To live a life elsewhere -- White is the color of freedom -- Waiting on a white man's chance -- Lost kin -- Searching for a new soul in Harlem -- Coming home -- Epilogue: On identity.

Author : Dick Lehr
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610398244

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The Birth of a Movement by Dick Lehr Pdf

In 1915, two men—one a journalist agitator, the other a technically brilliant filmmaker—incited a public confrontation that roiled America, pitting black against white, Hollywood against Boston, and free speech against civil rights. Monroe Trotter and D. W. Griffith were fighting over a film that dramatized the Civil War and Reconstruction in a post-Confederate South. Almost fifty years earlier, Monroe’s father, James, was a sergeant in an all-black Union regiment that marched into Charleston, South Carolina, just as the Kentucky cavalry—including Roaring Jack Griffith, D. W.’s father—fled for their lives. Griffith’s film, The Birth of a Nation, included actors in blackface, heroic portraits of Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and a depiction of Lincoln’s assassination. Freed slaves were portrayed as villainous, vengeful, slovenly, and dangerous to the sanctity of American values. It was tremendously successful, eventually seen by 25 million Americans. But violent protests against the film flared up across the country. Monroe Trotter’s titanic crusade to have the film censored became a blueprint for dissent during the 1950s and 1960s. This is the fiery story of a revolutionary moment for mass media and the nascent civil rights movement, and the men clashing over the cultural and political soul of a still-young America standing at the cusp of its greatest days.

Author : Marilyn Fabe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520279971

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Closely Watched Films by Marilyn Fabe Pdf

"Through detailed examinations of passages from classic films, Marilyn Fabe supplies the analytic tools and background in film history and theory to enable us to see more in every film we watch"--Page [4] of cover.

Author : Seymour Stern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Birth of a nation (Motion picture : 1915)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012009622

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Griffith: I, The Birth of a Nation by Seymour Stern Pdf

Author : Ira H. Gallen
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781460260999

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D.W. Griffith: Master of Cinema by Ira H. Gallen Pdf

Exhaustively researched and accessibly written, D.W. Griffith: Master of Cinema is a remarkably comprehensive biography of the legendary director and his days creating his craft at the American Biograph Company between 1908 through 1913. Meticulously detailed, utilizing a wealth of archival documents and photographs, the book effectively details Griffith’s place as a film pioneer. Even a casual film fan can see the lines being drawn from the techniques Griffith developed to modern cinematic experience. Ira Gallen’s exploration of Griffith’s family and his early life sets the stage for his career, and give great context for who he would become. His intricate details about early stage and film paint such a vivid and evocative picture of the time that you will be truly drawn into another world while reading it.