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Birth of a movement : the battle against America's first blockbuster, The birth of a nation

"In 1915, African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith's notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly blockbuster The Birth of a Nation, which unleashed a fight still raging today about race relations and representation, and t...

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Authors and Corporations: DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid (Composer), Kusiak, John (Composer), Bader, Kwyn (Screenwriter), Lehr, Dick (Screenwriter), Beecher, Jesse (Videographer), Cram, Bestor (Videographer)
Title: Birth of a movement : the battle against America's first blockbuster, The birth of a nation / executive producers Sam Pollard and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; writers Kwyn Bader and Dick Lehr ; original music by DJ Spooky and John Kusiak ; cinematographers Jesse Beecher, Bestor Cram and Daniel Mooney
Edition:Widescreen version
Type of Resource: DVD Video DVD-Video
Language: English
published:
[Arlington] : PBS Distribution, [2017]
[Boston] : Northern Light Productions
Subjects:
Griffith, D. W. 1875-1948 > Criticism and interpretation
Trotter, William Monroe 1872-1934 > Griffith, D. W. 1875-1948 > Trotter, William Monroe 1872-1934
Birth of a nation (Motion picture : 1915) > Birth of a nation (Motion picture : 1915) > 1900-1999
African American editors > Massachusetts > Boston
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
African American editors
Race relations
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century > Massachusetts > Boston > United States
DVD-Video
Source:Verbunddaten SWB
American Space
Notes:Sprachfassung: Englisch
Untertitel: Englisch