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Essay Archive - Birth of A Nation: Art or Propaganda
Birth of A Nation: Art or Propaganda
Mankind, engaging in war, driven by whatever instincts guide him, seeks
to keep the defeats and victories of battle in his memory and on his conscience.
To accomplish this men have used paint and canvas, ink and paper, or instrument
and song in their effort to communicate the tragedy and glory of war. Never,
before the career of D.W. Griffith had anyone attempted to bring the subject to
film. The result of his efforts, weaknesses aside, mark a change in attitude
towards film as a media. Perhaps audiences previously going to a picture....
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