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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIt is beyond time that we recognize that any discussion of Birth as cinematic art must be grounded in an understanding of Birth as racist propaganda. This is the major contribution of Martin's collection.
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Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Revisiting [As it Were] the "Negro Problem" in The Birth of a Nation: Looking Back and in the Present / Michael T. Martin
Part I: National/Transnational in Historical Time
1. Birth of a Nation's Long Century / Cara Caddoo
2. Great Moments From The Birth of a Nation: Collecting and Privately Screening Small Gauge Versions / Andy Uhrich
3. D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation: Transnational and Historical Perspectives / Melvyn Stokes
4. Defining National Identity: The Birth of a Nation From America to South Africa / Peter Davis
5. Is Birth of a Nation a Western? / Alex Lichtenstein
Part II: Representational and Rhetorical Strategies
6. Serial Melodramas of Black and White: The Birth of a Nation and Within Our Gates / Linda Williams
7. The Rhetoric of Historical Representation in Griffith's The Birth of a Nation / Lawrence Howe
Part III: Cinematic Iterations in the Present
8. Something Else Besides a Western: Django Unchained's Generic Miscegenations / Paula Massood
9. 12 Years a Slave and The Birth of a Nation: Two Moments in Representing Race / Julia Lesage
10. Engineering Different Equations in the Wake of Birth of a Nation: Blackface and Racial Politics in Bamboozled and Dear White People / Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris
11. Race, Space, Sexuality, and Suffering in The Birth of a Nation and Get Hard / David C. Wall
12. Anger or Laughter? The Dialectics of Response in The Birth of a Nation / Chuck Kleinhans
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