First Movie in the White House
J. Hoberman: ‘Birth of a Nation’, 12 February 2009
D.W. Griffith’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’: A History of ‘The Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time’
by Melvyn Stokes.
Oxford, 414 pp., £13.99, January 2008,978 0 19 533679 5 Show More
by Melvyn Stokes.
Oxford, 414 pp., £13.99, January 2008,
“... more aptly named; and rarely have quotations marks been more superfluous than in the subtitle of Melvyn Stokes’s informative book. What did Griffith bring into the world? Imagine an unholy combination of The Passion of the Christ and Fahrenheit 9/11, a movie as violent and sentimental as Saving Private Ryan and as tricksy as Forrest Gump, landing with ... ”
