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Birth of a Nation, The

noun

  1. an American film (1915), directed by D. W. Griffith.


The Birth of a Nation

  1. A dramatic silent film from 1915 about the South during and after the Civil War . The Birth of a Nation was directed by D. W. Griffith . The film, the first so-called spectacular, is considered highly controversial for its portrayal of African-Americans.
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Israeli writers, said Oz, who died in 2018, “are normalized. They write about everyday life: love, jealousy, solitude, ambition, longing, loss, the great and simple topics. Everyday existence in Israel is no longer ... the epic of the birth of a nation. The nation is born for better or worse. So you will find fewer and fewer Israeli writers dealing with the birth of a nation, dealing with the question of where do we go from here.”

As one might expect, Haygood begins his overview with the 1915 release of “The Birth of a Nation,” the notorious D.W.

He completed his thesis just as the film The Birth of a Nation – the incendiary homage to the Confederate south – premiered in New York in 1915.

Negative portrayals of Black Americans took on a new force as, within a year after The Birth of a Nation, the Great Migration from the South to the North began.

Chernow’s larger story is about the birth of a nation; the lofty ideals, grubby politics and gossipy detours bring the Revolutionary era to life.

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