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  • Cinema's Original Sin

    D.W. Griffith, American Racism, and the Rise of Film Culture

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Bruce McDonald's 'Hard Core Logo'

    de Paul McEwan ...
    Series series Canadian Cinema
    Consistently ranked as one of the best Canadian movies of all time, punk-rock mockumentary Hard Core Logo (1996) documents the last-ditch reunion tour of an aging rock band led by vocalist Joe Dick (Hugh Dillon). Well received by critics at the time of its release, the film continues to enjoy a devoted international cult following.This entertaining analysis of Hard Core Logo explores many of the ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • In the Shadow of The Birth of a Nation

    Racism, Reception and Resistance

    Edición de Melvyn Stokes, Paul McEwan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection brings together many of the world’s leading scholars on race and film to re-consider the legacy and impact of D.W. Griffith’s deeply racist 1915 epic The Birth of a Nation. While this film is often cited, there is a considerable dearth of substantial research on its initial impact and global reach. These essays fill important gaps in the history of the film, including essential ... Leer más

    $134.99 USD

  • The Birth of a Nation

    de Paul McEwan ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    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 ... Leer más

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    Cinema's Original Sin

    D.W. Griffith, American Racism, and the Rise of Film Culture

    de Paul McEwan ...
    Narrado por Paul Heitsch ...

    Completo

    9 hora 21 minutos

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Forgeries of Memory and Meaning

    Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II

    Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early “talkies” firmly entrenched limited representations of African Americans.Robinson grounds his study in contexts that illuminate the parallel growth of racial ... Leer más

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  • A History of American Working-Class Literature

    Edición de Nicholas Coles, Paul Lauter ...
    A History of American Working-Class Literature sheds light not only on the lived experience of class but the enormously varied creativity of working-class people throughout the history of what is now the United States. By charting a chronology of working-class experience, as the conditions of work have changed over time, this volume shows how the practice of organizing, economic competition, place ... Leer más

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  • Real Folks

    Race and Genre in the Great Depression

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    During the Great Depression, people from across the political spectrum sought to ground American identity in the rural know-how of “the folk.” At the same time, certain writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals combined documentary and satire into a hybrid genre that revealed the folk as an anxious product of corporate capitalism, rather than an antidote to commercial culture. In Real Folks, Sonnet ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    New York holds a special place in America's national mythology as both the gateway to the USA and as a diverse, vibrant cultural center distinct from the rest of the nation. From the international atmosphere of the Dutch colony New Amsterdam, through the expansion of the city in the nineteenth century, to its unique appeal to artists and writers in the twentieth, New York has given its writers a ... Leer más

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  • Fade In, Crossroads

    A History of the Southern Cinema

    How did the US South contribute to the development of film? And how did film shape the modern South? In Fade In, Crossroads, Robert Jackson tells the story of the relationships between southerners and motion pictures from the silent era through the golden age of Hollywood. Jackson reveals the profound consequences of the coincidence of the rise and fall of the American film industry with the rise ... Leer más

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  • Hollywood As Historian

    American Film in a Cultural Context

    Edición de Peter C. Rollins ...
    "A commendably comprehensive analysis of the issue of Hollywood's ability to shape our minds . . . invigorating reading." ? BooklistFilm has exerted a pervasive influence on the American mind, and in eras of economic instability and international conflict, the industry has not hesitated to use motion pictures for propaganda purposes. During less troubled times, citizens' ability to deal with ... Leer más

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  • American Literature in Transition, 1910–1920

    Edición de Mark W. Van Wienen ...
    Series series American Literature in Transition
    American Literature in Transition, 1910–1920 offers provocative new readings of authors whose innovations are recognized as inaugurating Modernism in US letters, including Robert Frost, Willa Cather, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, H. D., and Marianne Moore. Gathering the voices of both new and established scholars, the volume also reflects the diversity and contradictions of US ... Leer más

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