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#255: Birth of a Nation: Racism the Movie!
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Da storfilmen 'Birth of a Nation' kørte over biograflærrederne i 1915 var publikum blown away over de episke scener, den storladne historier og de banebrydende filmteknikker. Men alligevel forlod mange biografen med en dårlig smag i munden..
Hovedpersonerne i filmen viste sig nemlig at være ingen ringere end Ku Klux Klan. Og det blev kun værre af, at filmens helte brugte det meste af filmen på heroisk at myrde hvide skuespillere i tvivlsom sort make-up.
Men på trods af det dybt racistiske indhold blev filmen en mega-succes, der både var med til at skabe det moderne Hollywood, men også førte til at Klanen vendte tilbage fra de døde...
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Kilder:
- Roy Morris, Jr: “Memory and myth : the Civil War in fiction and film from Uncle Tom's cabin to Cold mountain” (2007)
- Neale, Stephen: “Epics, spectacles, and blockbusters: a Hollywood history” (2010)
- Slide, Anthony: “American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon”, The University Press of Kentucky (2004)
- Kirsner, Scott: “Inventing the movies: Hollywood's epic battle between innovation and the status quo”, 2008
- Schickel, Richard: “D. W. Griffith: An American Life” (1996)
- Ang, Desmond: “The Birth of a Nation: Media and Racial Hate”, American Economic Review (2023)
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20201867 - “Birth of a Nation, 1915” fra AFI Catalog of Feature Films, American Film Institute:
https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/1826 - Roy Morris, Jr: “Memory and myth : the Civil War in fiction and film from Uncle Tom's cabin to Cold mountain” (2007)
- Neale, Stephen: “Epics, spectacles, and blockbusters: a Hollywood history” (2010)
- Schickel, Richard: “D. W. Griffith: An American Life” (1996)
- Doherty, Thomas: "'The Birth of a Nation' at 100: "Important, Innovative and Despicable", The Hollywood Reporter, 2015:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/entry/view/id/909518 - D.W. Griffith på Imdb.com:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000428/ - “D. W. Griffith”, uddrag fra “Hollywood Renegades,” 2005:
https://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/dwgriffith.htm - Lennard, Katherine: “Old Purpose, "New Body": "The Birth Of A Nation" And The Revival Of The Ku Klux Klan”, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43903547 - “Lost Cause”, Brittannica:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lost-Cause - Robbins, Cara: “Meet the Problematic Foundation of Film: D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation”, Vindicator (2022)
https://www.thevindi.com/post/meet-the-problematic-foundation-of-film-d-w-griffith-s-birth-of-a-nation
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