D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time

by Melvyn Stokes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195336798
• ISBN13: 9780195336795
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"