| | Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10) |
 | | Racism is fundamental to the film in terms of both form and content (e.g. |
 | | As "obvious" (Sorlin, 1980: 30; Staiger, 1992: 152) as the racism of Birth is though, there may yet be value in reconsidering D.W. Griffith's denials of racist intent, both in the film itself (via intertitle at the beginning of Part Two) and in the public debate which followed the picture's release (e.g. |
 | | In Robinson's analysis of The Birth of a Nation, the historical importance of the film stems from its collusion with the interests behind the economic and political transformation of America into a global power at the beginnings of the twentieth century. |
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