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[ecrea] CfP: In the Shadow of The Birth of a Nation: A Centennial Assessment of Griffith's Film

Wed Jun 11 05:30:34 GMT 2014



CFP
In the Shadow of The Birth of a Nation: A Centennial Assessment of Griffith's Film
Commonwealth Fund Conference in American History
University College London
London, United Kingdom
June 25-27, 2015

2015 will see the centennial of the release of David W. Griffith's highly controversial film The Birth of a Nation. The time is ripe for a scholarly review of the movie and its after-effects - one of which has been the eclipse of Griffith's historical reputation because of the rampant racism of his film (in 1999 the Directors Guild of America abolished its D. W. Griffith award for lifetime achievement). The conference will assess what the film meant and still means in terms of race relations, American history, and film history. Keynote speakers will be Jane Gaines (Columbia University); Robert Lang (University of Hartford); Paul McEwan (Muhlenberg College); Cedric Robinson (University of California, Santa Barbara); Jacqueline Stewart (University of Chicago) and Linda Williams (University of California, Berkeley).

Conference organisers: Melvyn Stokes (UCL) and Iwan Morgan (UCL)

Further information and CfP: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/birth-of-a-nation


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