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,
“... when looking at the past, are somewhat tongue-tied before Griffith’s film,’ the film historian Russell Merritt wrote early in the 1970s. ‘We are troubled that Griffith can so successfully build the Klan into a glorious Armada.’ Griffith’s ‘ultimate achievement’, Merritt thought, was ‘the intensity with which he forced and continues to force his ... ”