Today is the anniversary of the Los Angeles premiere of D.W. Griffith’s landmark film The Birth of a Nation (1914), which like America itself, is epic in scale, unprecedented, innovative — and troubled by a perverse, pathological racism. As it so emblematic, I return to the subject of this film periodically, as in these previous posts: On […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:36AM on February 8, 2017