D.W. Griffith's The birth of a nation : art, culture and ethics in black and white /: art, culture and ethics in black and white. (2022)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- D.W. Griffith's The birth of a nation : art, culture and ethics in black and white /: art, culture and ethics in black and white. (2022)
- Main Title:
- D.W. Griffith's The birth of a nation : art, culture and ethics in black and white
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Jenny Barrett, Douglas Field, Ian Scott.
- Editors:
- Barrett, Jenny, 1968-
Field, Douglas, 1974-
Scott, Ian, 1965- - Contents:
- Introduction: the legacy of The Birth of a Nation – Jenny Barrett, Douglas Field and Ian Scott; 1 Black faces in The Birth of a Nation : D. W. Griffith’s art and the African American actor – Corin Willis; 2 The afterlife of stereotype: Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, DJ Spooky and The Birth of a Nation – Robert Burgoyne; 3 Kunle Olulode in conversation with Dr Jenny Barrett; 4 Desegregating the screen: Oscar Micheaux and the rise of activist cinema – Jeffrey Geiger; 5 Examining the ‘white saviour’ in The Birth of a Nation – Jonathan Ward; 6 A rope with two ends: Nate Parker, D. W. Griffith and the tangled legacies of The Birth of a Nation – Lydia J. Plath; 7 The birth of an origin – Oliver C. Speck; 8 The Birth of a Nation, black documentary and the 1992 L.A. uprisings – E. James West; 9 ‘Go see it because it will make a better American of you’: The Birth of a Nation in the era of ‘fake news’ – Jenny Barrett; 10 Standing their ground: a southern community’s response to The Birth of a Nation – Van Dora Williams; 11 The Birth of a Nation : a timeline – Jenny Barrett; Afterword – Robert J. Corber; Index
- Publisher Details:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:
- 2022
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 791.4372
PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director (see also BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts)
PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Historical
Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers
Films, Cinema
Influence - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781526164445
9781526164469 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781526164452
- Notes:
- Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
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- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.740714
- Ingest File:
- 15_022.xml