{"product_id":"the-birth-of-a-nation-the-cinematic-past-in-the-present-paperback-softback-9780253042354","title":"The Birth of a Nation; The Cinematic Past in the Present (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253042354","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Birth of a Nation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Cinematic Past in the Present\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael T. Martin (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253042354\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 24 April 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e324 pages, 72 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An extremely important contribution to scholarship with excellent essays across a range of views on the film's importance and historical, genre, and cultural resonances. . . . It distinguishes itself from other collections of essays on \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e by its discussion of the film in relation to current race relations, its transnational scope, and its multi-leveled discussion of the way the film was watched both by its supporters and its critics. \"—Alan Rice, author of \u003ci\u003eCreating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"With this volume, Michael T. Martin offers a compelling reassessment of \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e that not only offers original scholarship on various aspects of its exhibition, reception, and formal properties, but pushes the inquiry into the present, looking at contemporary films through the long shadow of Griffith's epic of racism and national division. \"—Allyson Nadia Field, author of \u003ci\u003eUplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film \u0026amp; The Possibility of Black Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"It is beyond time that we recognize that any discussion of \u003ci\u003eBirth \u003c\/i\u003eas cinematic art must be grounded in an understanding of \u003ci\u003eBirth\u003c\/i\u003e as racist propaganda. This is the major contribution of Martin's collection.\"—\u003ci\u003eH-Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver one hundred years since it premiered on cinema screens, D. W. Griffith's controversial photoplay \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e continues to influence American film production and to have relevance for race relations in the United States. While lauded at the time of its release for its visual and narrative innovations and a box office hit with film audiences, it provoked African American protest in 1915 for racially offensive content. In this collection of essays, contributors explore Griffith's film as text, artifact, and cultural legacy and place it into both the historical and transnational contexts of the first half of the 1900s and its resonances with current events in America, such as #BlackLivesMatter, #HollywoodSoWhite, and #OscarsSoWhite movements. Through studies of the film's reception, formal innovations in visual storytelling, and comparisons with contemporary movies, this work challenges the idea the United States has moved beyond racial problems and highlights the role of film and representation in the continued struggle for equality. This title is also available as an Open Access edition online at https:\/\/iu.pressbooks.pub\/thebirthofanation\/\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Revisiting [As it Were] the \"Negro Problem\" in \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e: Looking Back and in the Present \/ Michael T. Martin\u003cbr\u003e Part I: National\/Transnational in Historical Time\u003cbr\u003e 1.\u003ci\u003e Birth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e's Long Century \/ Cara Caddoo\u003cbr\u003e 2. Great Moments From \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e: Collecting and Privately Screening Small Gauge Versions \/ Andy Uhrich\u003cbr\u003e 3. D.W. Griffith's \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e: Transnational and Historical Perspectives \/ Melvyn Stokes\u003cbr\u003e 4. Defining National Identity: \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e From America to South Africa \/ Peter Davis\u003cbr\u003e 5. Is \u003ci\u003eBirth of a Nation \u003c\/i\u003ea Western? \/ Alex Lichtenstein\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Representational and Rhetorical Strategies\u003cbr\u003e 6. Serial Melodramas of Black and White: \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of a Nation \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWithin Our Gates\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Linda Williams\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Rhetoric of Historical Representation in Griffith's \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Lawrence Howe\u003cbr\u003e Part III: Cinematic Iterations in the Present\u003cbr\u003e 8. Something Else Besides a Western: \u003ci\u003eDjango Unchained\u003c\/i\u003e's Generic Miscegenations \/ Paula Massood\u003cbr\u003e 9.\u003ci\u003e 12 Years a Slave \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Birth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e: Two Moments in Representing Race \/ Julia Lesage\u003cbr\u003e 10. Engineering Different Equations in the Wake of \u003ci\u003eBirth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e: Blackface and Racial Politics in \u003ci\u003eBamboozled \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDear White People\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris\u003cbr\u003e 11. Race, Space, Sexuality, and Suffering in \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGet Hard\u003c\/i\u003e \/ David C. Wall\u003cbr\u003e 12. Anger or Laughter? 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