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Birth of a Nation, The
noun
- an American film (1915), directed by D. W. Griffith.
Example Sentences
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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