Paul McEwan is a professor in the media and communication and film studies departments at Muhlenberg College. He is the author of Bruce McDonald's Hard Core Logo and The Birth of a Nation (BFI Classics).
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For over a century, cinephiles and film scholars have had to grapple with an ugly artifact that sits at the beginnings of film history. D. W. Griffith's profoundly racist epic, The Birth of a Nation, inspired controversy and protest at its 1915 release an... SEE MORE