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Rural as Nation
This chapter, ‘Rural as Nation’, explores the national aspect of rurality, drawing on Mike Bartlett’s Albion (Almeida, 2017) as a key case study. The... -
Indigenous to where? Homelands and nation (pueblo) in Indigenous Latinx studies
This paper centers the importance of homelands in the distinction between indigeneity and Latinidades, or multiple Latinx identities. I emphasize the...
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Writing Reality: Constructing a Nation
Literary journalism produced in the colonial era was central to the formation of the nation. This book—written as a cultural rather than... -
Identity Construction Between Nation Building and Nation Branding
In the past decade, the cultural projection of China has become increasingly important to the Communist Party of China (CPC) and to the state in... -
The Return of the Regulatory State: Nation-States as Policy Actors in Digital Platform Governance
This chapter tracks the evolution of Internet governance from the “open Internet” discourses of the 1990s towards the current “policy turn”, and the... -
Einleitung: Kino-Wochenschau – „Familienalbum der Nation“
Im ersten Kapitel Einleitung: Kino-Wochenschau – „Familienalbum der Nation“ wird die Wochenschau als Gedächtnis- und Erinnerungsmedium sowie als... -
‘Playing sport is building nation’: Issues of Colombian Football and Nation in the Magazines Estadio and Semana during the El Dorado Professional League (1948–1954)
This chapter shows that the success of Colombia’s first professional league provided the opportunity for sport to return to being a central aspect of... -
Fixing The Birth of a Nation?: Hampton Institute and The New Era
The New Era Hampton epilogueas response to film" \r "mbnAwas Hampton’s answer to the nefarious representation of African Americans in The Birth of a... -
The Influence of The Birth of a Nation on South Africa: Film Culture and Race
D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation was screened for the first time in South Africa in 1931, for a very limited run of four nights only in the... -
“Still a North and a South”: The Birth of a Nation and National Trauma
In President Obama’s 2015 State of The Union Address, he said: “I want [future generations] to grow up in a country that shows the world what we... -
Blackface, Disguise and Invisibility in the Reception of The Birth of a Nation
This chapter explores a question of audience perception in the light of the divergence between interpretative accounts of films as texts and social... -
From Emigrant to Migrant Nation: Reckoning with Irish Historical Duty
This chapter surveys the Republic of Ireland’s post-1990s transition from a nation primarily associated with emigration to one re-shaped by... -
The Birth of a Nation Footage We Do Not Want to Find
The Birth of a Nation (1915) met controversy beginning the year of its release, facing protests in multiple cities, many organized by the newly... -
Transatlantic “Structural Amnesia”: The Birth of a Nation in Britain 1915–16
The reception of The Birth of a Nation in Britain in 1915 suggests that the interpretations encouraged by the advertising and the critics’ comments... -
In the Shadow of The Birth of a Nation Racism, Reception and Resistance
This collection brings together many of the world’s leading scholars on race and film to re-consider the legacy and impact of D.W. Griffith’s deeply...
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Gender, Race, Nation … and Barbie Savior
This chapter explores the Instagram account Barbie Savior, in which a satirical Barbie doll is given an imaginary world where she travels to Africa... -
Resisting The Birth of a Nation in Virginia
“Resisting the Birth” focuses on the response of Black and white communities and institutions in Virginia where unsuccessful attempts to fix the film... -
Introduction: Women, Nation, Enablement, and the Irish Question
A prolific playwright with an oeuvre of almost sixty plays, Bernard Shaw has, as Nicholas Grene contends, “so long remained the invisible man of... -
“Should It Not Therefore Be Banned?”: Screening and Broadcasting The Birth of a Nation in Britain
In 1952, the London County Council permitted a screening of The Birth of a Nation at the Marble Arch Pavilion, running at just one and a half hours,... -
“At This Time in This City”: Black Atlanta and the Première of The Birth of a Nation
The Birth of a Nation was protested widely, not just in northern cities like Boston and New York but in many cities of the South. Curiously, Atlanta,...