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

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

Paul McEwan with Paul Heitsch (Narrator)

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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 re...

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