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2 days ago · Titled “Unbroken Blossoms,” the East West Players world premiere applauds the two Chinese consultants hired to work on Griffith’s interracial romance film while a white actor plays the movie ...
1 day ago · D.W. Griffith’s 1915 Civil War era epic The Birth of a Nation dealt with Reconstruction, while Korean American Philip W. Chung’s new world premiere play, Unbroken Blossoms, deals with the deconstruction of Asian imagery in another Griffith movie. The motion picture pioneer’s cinematic spectacle celebrating the Ku Klux Klan provoked ...
3 days ago · July 3, 2024 at 4:58 PM. After the deeply divisive reception of "The Birth of a Nation," director D.W. Griffith released "Broken Blossoms," in which a young, abused girl finds comfort in the ...
3 days ago · After the deeply divisive reception of “The Birth of a Nation,” director D.W. Griffith released “Broken Blossoms,” in which a young, abused girl finds comfort in the company of a kind Chinese man.
3 days ago · I n the word game of free association, what frequently comes to mind at the mention of D.W. Griffith is the director’s silent movie Birth of a Nation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation website of historic cases starts its section on the Ku Klux Klan with the riots, cross-burnings, and lynchings that followed the release of the divisive movie in 1915.
3 days ago · Silent Hall of Fame has created a Silent Gems Collection of rare and for the first time available films with our stars, as well as other silent masterpieces. These are high quality films...
5 days ago · In the US, D.W. Griffith’s Hearts of the World (1918) was sponsored by the British government and used actual footage from the front: its dramatic battle sequences and jingoistic sentiment would shape the genre as it developed further.
