Birth of a movement : the battle against America's first blockbuster /

Birth of a movement : the battle against America's first blockbuster /

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"In 1915, African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith's notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly blockbuster The Birth of a Nation, which unleashed a fight still raging today about race relations and representation, and t...

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Other Authors: Gray, Susan (televison director.), Cram, Bestor (Cinematographer), Mooney, Daniel, 1973- (director of photography.), Bader, Kwyn, 1969- (Screenwriter), Lehr, Dick (Screenwriter), DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid (composer (expression)), Kusiak, John (composer (expression)), Beecher, Jesse (director of photography.), Glover, Danny (Narrator)
Format: Unknown
Language:English
Published: [Arlington, Va.] : PBS Distribution, [2017]
Subjects:
Griffith, D. W. > (David Wark), > 1875-1948 > Criticism and interpretation.
Trotter, William Monroe, > 1872-1934.
Lehr, Dick > Television adaptations.
Birth of a nation (Motion picture : 1915)
African American editors > Massachusetts > Boston > Biography.
Racism in motion pictures.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.

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Call Number: E656 .B578 2016