Elsie Stoneman
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Sep 12, 2024 · Based on the novel The Clansman (1905) by Thomas Dixon, the two-part epic traces the impact of the Civil War on two families: the Stonemans of the North and the Camerons of the South, each on separate sides of the conflict.
Nov 21, 2023 · The Birth of a Nation, released in 1915, is both a cinematic masterpiece and an appalling homage to white supremacy. The first movie ever screened at the White House, it introduced...
Jan 11, 2024 · (The Clansman)Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine in director D.W. Griffith's controversial...
Dec 14, 2023 · Birth of a Nation is still a movie beloved by the Klan, and the rhetoric of white victimhood and black criminality is still extremely popular in the States—see the Proud Boys, 3%ers, the rise of Mass Incarceration, the reaction to BLM.
Aug 31, 2024 · D.W. Griffith - Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Filmmaker: In 1913 Griffith left Biograph and entered into an agreement with Mutual Films for the direction and supervision of motion pictures. From this association, among other films, came The Birth of a Nation.
Sep 8, 2024 · “The Birth of a Nation” was a huge hit film in 1915 all over the United States. Its title means cancelling Abraham Lincoln’s deluded version of America as mere civic nationalism — of an aracial country.
Oct 4, 2023 · Nate Parker's “The Birth of a Nation” plays with the title of D.W. Griffith's 1915 silent film to reappropriate its phrase of a title to no longer be used in a deprecating manner towards black people.
Sep 3, 2024 · The theme of “the birth of a nation,” which underpins the plot of Gangs of New York, clearly corresponds with the motif of the interpenetration of the sacred and the profane—a theme consistently present in the director’s films.
May 23, 2024 · Birth of a Nation is a highly controversial American film which debuted in 1915. Even at the time the film met with significant criticism due to its racist content, and it continues to be a topic of debate among critics of American film.
Jul 5, 2024 · The Birth of a Nation, perhaps one of the most controversial movies in U.S. history, premiered as The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan in 1915 to be met with both rousing approval and indignant condemnation.
