Cinema's original sin: D. W. Griffith, American racism, and the rise of film culture: by Paul McEwan, Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 2022, 272 pp., $55.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-4773-2548-3.

Few films in the history of the medium have been as widely discussed as D. W. Griffith's I The Birth of a Nation i , an infamous Civil War epic routinely cited in debates, both academic and otherwise, about cinema, art and racism since its release in 1915. In a time that saw the emergence of new ide...

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Published in:	Early Popular Visual Culture Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 299 - 302
Main Author:	Adamson, Patrick
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd May2023
Subjects:	Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948 Racism Motion picture screenings Remixes Culture Race
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost