All Annotations of The Birth of a Nation (From The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow--PBS)[Preview]

saved byDavid Voelker on 2008-01-29

• Thomas Dixon reveled in its triumph.
  "The real purpose of my film," he confessed
  gleefully, "was to revolutionize Northern audiences
  that would transform every man into a Southern partisan
  for life."
  • on 2008-01-29 18:39:14 David_voelker
    Dixon wrote *The Clansman*--the novel on which the film was based.

• on 2008-01-29 18:34:38 David_voelker
  This page offers a scathing critique of the film, along with some historical context of the controversy and conflict surrounding the film's release.