Lightning, camera, action: as The Birth of a Nation turns 90, its racism is out of bounds, but its more enduring impact can be seen just by turning on the television.(FILM)
American Prospect, The, June, 2005 by Hoberman, J.
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CAN PHOTOGRAPHS, MOTION PICTURES, and television create social change? Or would it be more accurate to say that these camera-based forms construct a social reality? Michael Moore notwithstanding, the ultimate test case appeared 90 years ago: D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, released throughout America in the spring of 1915, remains the single most important movie ever made in this country, as well as the most inflammatory one.
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A culmination of the hundreds of short, two-reel narratives, more or less codifying the language of narrative cinema, that Griffith ground out at ...
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