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This work looks at the black independent film movement during the silent period. It traces the profound influence that D.W. Griffith's racist epic The Birth of a Nation exerted on black filmmakers such as Oscar Micheaux, the director of the newly recovered Within Our Gates.

Fire and Desire MixedRace Movies in the Silent

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A Paperback / softback by Jane M. Gaines

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 01/02/2001
    ISBN13: 9780226278759, 978-0226278759
    ISBN10: 0226278751

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    Book Synopsis
    This work looks at the black independent film movement during the silent period. It traces the profound influence that D.W. Griffith's racist epic The Birth of a Nation exerted on black filmmakers such as Oscar Micheaux, the director of the newly recovered Within Our Gates.

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