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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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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 1 February 2001
      ISBN-13 9780226278759
      978-0226278759
      ISBN-10 0226278751
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      Performing arts Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

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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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