Tag: D. W. Griffith

  • The Birth of A Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America’s Civil War PublicAffairs 2014-11-04 368 pages 6.300 x 9.500 Hardcover ISBN: 9781586489878 eBook ISBN: 9781586489885 Dick Lehr, Professor of Journalism Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts In 1915, two men—one a journalist agitator, the other a technically brilliant filmmaker—incited a public confrontation…

  • Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation: Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race Princeton University Press 2004 376 pages 6 x 9, 142 halftones. Paperback ISBN: 9780691113050 Susan Courtney, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies University of South Carolina Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film.  From…