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Revisiting (As It Were) the “Negro Problem” in The Birth of a Nation
Michael T. Martin
1. The Birth of a Nation's Long Century
Cara Caddoo
2. Great Moments from The Birth of a Nation
Andy Uhrich
3. D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation
Melvyn Stokes
4. Defining National Identity
Peter Davis
5. Comment: Is The Birth of a Nation a Western?
Alex Lichtenstein
6. Serial Melodramas of Black and White
Linda Williams
7. The Rhetoric of Historical Representation in Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation
Lawrence Howe
8. Something Else Besides a Western
Paula Massood
9. 12 Years a Slave and The Birth of a Nation
Julia Lesage
10. Engineering Different Equations in the Wake of The Birth of a Nation
Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris
11. Race, Space, Sexuality, and Suffering in The Birth of a Nation and Get Hard
David C. Wall
12. Anger or Laughter? The Dialectics of Response to The Birth of a Nation
Chuck Kleinhans
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