The Birth of a Nation (From The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow--PBS) - The Diigo Meta page

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  David Voelker

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  • 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."

    • Dixon wrote *The Clansman*--the novel on which the film was based.
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  • Griffith later regretted the racial prejudice that his film promoted. He tried to make amends by making INTOLERANCE, a film attacking race prejudice. But INTOLERANCE never approached the success of THE BIRTH OF A NATION.

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  David Voelker on 2008-01-29
  Dixon wrote *The Clansman*--the novel on which the film was based.

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  David Voelker on 2008-01-29
  This page offers a scathing critique of the film, along with some historical context of the controversy and conflict surrounding the film's release.

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