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->''"Classic or not, ''Birth Birth of a Nation'' Nation has long been one of the embarrassments of film scholarship. It can't be ignored ... and yet it was regarded as outrageously racist even at a time when racism was hardly a household word."''
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->''"Classic or not, ''Birth of a Nation'' has long been one of the embarrassments of film scholarship. It can't be ignored ... and yet it was regarded as outrageously racist even at a time when racism was hardly a household word."''
-->-- '''Andrew Sarris'''
->''"Classic or not, ''Birth of a Nation'' has long been one of the embarrassments of film scholarship. It can't be ignored ... and yet it was regarded as outrageously racist even at a time when racism was hardly a household word."''
-->-- '''Andrew Sarris'''
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-> ''Certain shrewd businessmen, seeking to advertise [The Birth of a Nation], made assertions to the effect that I have praised it and have stated that in its time Birth of a Nation greatly influenced my creative work. I emphatically protest against these assertions. True, I've always given Griffith his due as an outstanding master of the bourgeois film. But this can in no way be applied to Birth of a Nation. This film has never been shown here [U.S.S.R.] and I saw it abroad after Film/TheBattleshipPotemkin appeared and therefore I could in no way have been influenced by Birth of a Nation. [[EveryoneHasStandards The disgraceful propaganda]] of racial hatred toward colored people which permeates this film [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped cannot be redeemed by purely cinematographic effects in this production]].''
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-> ''Certain shrewd businessmen, seeking to advertise [The Birth of a Nation], made assertions to the effect that I have praised it and have stated that in its time Birth of a Nation greatly influenced my creative work. I emphatically protest against these assertions. True, I've always given Griffith his due as an outstanding master of the bourgeois film. But this can in no way be applied to Birth of a Nation. This film has never been shown here [U.S.S.R.] and I saw it abroad after Film/TheBattleshipPotemkin appeared and therefore I could in no way have been influenced by Birth of a Nation. [[EveryoneHasStandards The disgraceful propaganda]] of racial hatred toward colored people which permeates this film [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped cannot be redeemed by purely cinematographic effects in this production]].production.''
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-> ''When it comes to the civil war, all of our popular understanding, our popular history and culture, our great films, the subtext of our arguments [[HollywoodHistory are in defiance of its painful truths]]. It is not a mistake that Literature/GoneWithTheWind is one of the most read works of American literature or that Film/TheBirthOfANation1915 The Birth of a Nation]] is the most revered touchstone of all American film. Both emerge from a need for palliatives and painkillers, an escape from the truth of those five short years [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar in which 750,000 American soldiers were killed]], more than all American soldiers killed in all other American wars combined, in a war declared for the cause of expanding “African slavery”...The history breaks the myth. And so the history is ignored, and fictions are weaved into our art and politics that [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade dress villainy in martyrdom and transform banditry into chivalry]], and so strong are these fictions that their emblem, the stars and bars, darkens front porches and state capitol buildings across the land to this day.''
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-> ''When it comes to the civil war, all of our popular understanding, our popular history and culture, our great films, the subtext of our arguments [[HollywoodHistory are in defiance of its painful truths]]. It is not a mistake that Literature/GoneWithTheWind is one of the most read works of American literature or that Film/TheBirthOfANation1915 [[Film/TheBirthOfANation1915 The Birth of a Nation]] is the most revered touchstone of all American film. Both emerge from a need for palliatives and painkillers, an escape from the truth of those five short years [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar in which 750,000 American soldiers were killed]], more than all American soldiers killed in all other American wars combined, in a war declared for the cause of expanding “African slavery”...The history breaks the myth. And so the history is ignored, and fictions are weaved into our art and politics that [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade dress villainy in martyrdom and transform banditry into chivalry]], and so strong are these fictions that their emblem, the stars and bars, darkens front porches and state capitol buildings across the land to this day.''
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-> ''When it comes to the civil war, all of our popular understanding, our popular history and culture, our great films, the subtext of our arguments [[HollywoodHistory are in defiance of its painful truths]]. It is not a mistake that Literature/GoneWithTheWind is one of the most read works of American literature or that Film/TheBirthOfANation1915 The Birth of a Nation]] is the most revered touchstone of all American film. Both emerge from a need for palliatives and painkillers, an escape from the truth of those five short years [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar in which 750,000 American soldiers were killed]], more than all American soldiers killed in all other American wars combined, in a war declared for the cause of expanding “African slavery”...The history breaks the myth. And so the history is ignored, and fictions are weaved into our art and politics that [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade dress villainy in martyrdom and transform banditry into chivalry]], and so strong are these fictions that their emblem, the stars and bars, darkens front porches and state capitol buildings across the land to this day.''
-->-- '''Creator/TaNehisiCoates'''
-> ''When it comes to the civil war, all of our popular understanding, our popular history and culture, our great films, the subtext of our arguments [[HollywoodHistory are in defiance of its painful truths]]. It is not a mistake that Literature/GoneWithTheWind is one of the most read works of American literature or that Film/TheBirthOfANation1915 The Birth of a Nation]] is the most revered touchstone of all American film. Both emerge from a need for palliatives and painkillers, an escape from the truth of those five short years [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar in which 750,000 American soldiers were killed]], more than all American soldiers killed in all other American wars combined, in a war declared for the cause of expanding “African slavery”...The history breaks the myth. And so the history is ignored, and fictions are weaved into our art and politics that [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade dress villainy in martyrdom and transform banditry into chivalry]], and so strong are these fictions that their emblem, the stars and bars, darkens front porches and state capitol buildings across the land to this day.''
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-> ''Certain shrewd businessmen, seeking to advertise [The Birth of a Nation], made assertions to the effect that I have praised it and have stated that in its time Birth of a Nation greatly influenced my creative work. I emphatically protest against these assertions. True, I've always given Griffith his due as an outstanding master of the bourgeois film. But this can in no way be applied to Birth of a Nation. This film has never been shown here [U.S.S.R.] and I saw it abroad after Film/TheBattleshipPotemkin appeared and therefore I could in no way have been influenced by Birth of a Nation. [[EveryoneHasStandards The disgraceful propaganda]] of racial hatred toward colored people which permeates this film [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped cannot be redeemed by purely cinematographic effects in this production]].''
-->-- '''Creator/SergeiEisenstein'''
-->-- '''Creator/SergeiEisenstein'''
