Cinema's Original Sin: D.W. Griffith, American Racism, and the Rise of Film Culture

by 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 Reconstruction (although it was based on fiction) and a new achievement in cinematic art. Paul McEwan examines the long and shifting history of its reception,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477325484
• ISBN13: 9781477325483
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"