Pas på, I ikke får popcornene galt i halsen 🍿 Da storfilmen 'Birth of a Nation' kørte over biograflærrederne i 1915 var publikum blown away over de episke scener, den storladne historier og de banebrydende filmteknikker. Men alligevel forlod mange biografen med en dårlig smag i munden.. Hovedpersonerne i filmen viste sig nemlig at være ingen ringere end Ku Klux Klan. Og det blev kun værre af, at filmens helte brugte det meste af filmen på heroisk at myrde hvide skuespillere i tvivlsom sort make-up. Men på trods af det dybt racistiske indhold blev filmen en mega-succes, der både var med til at skabe det moderne Hollywood, men også førte til at Klanen vendte tilbage fra de døde... --------------------- Dagens Øl: Łomża Miodowe og Mikkeller Forbidden Fruit Somersby Skip til cirka 06:00 for historiens start. --------------------- Podcasten indeholder reklame for Zetlands ambassadørkampagne. Skriv dig op til online-avisen for et valgfrit beløb - så får vi 200 kroner til at podcaste for! Brug bare følgende link: www.zetland.dk/kampagne/vv --------------------- Kilder: Roy Morris, Jr: “Memory and myth : the Civil War in fiction and film from Uncle Tom's cabin to Cold mountain” (2007)Neale, Stephen: “Epics, spectacles, and blockbusters: a Hollywood history” (2010)Slide, Anthony: “American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon”, The University Press of Kentucky (2004)Kirsner, Scott: “Inventing the movies: Hollywood's epic battle between innovation and the status quo”, 2008Schickel, Richard: “D. W. Griffith: An American Life” (1996)Ang, Desmond: “The Birth of a Nation: Media and Racial Hate”, American Economic Review (2023) https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20201867“Birth of a Nation, 1915” fra AFI Catalog of Feature Films, American Film Institute: https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/1826Roy Morris, Jr: “Memory and myth : the Civil War in fiction and film from Uncle Tom's cabin to Cold mountain” (2007)Neale, Stephen: “Epics, spectacles, and blockbusters: a Hollywood history” (2010)Schickel, Richard: “D. W. Griffith: An American Life” (1996)Doherty, Thomas: "'The Birth of a Nation' at 100: "Important, Innovative and Despicable", The Hollywood Reporter, 2015: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/entry/view/id/909518D.W. Griffith på Imdb.com: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000428/“D. W. Griffith”, uddrag fra “Hollywood Renegades,” 2005: https://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/dwgriffith.htmLennard, Katherine: “Old Purpose, "New Body": "The Birth Of A Nation" And The Revival Of The Ku Klux Klan”, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era https://www.jstor.org/stable/43903547“Lost Cause”, Brittannica: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lost-CauseRobbins, Cara: “Meet the Problematic Foundation of Film: D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation”, Vindicator (2022) https://www.thevindi.com/post/meet-the-problematic-foundation-of-film-d-w-griffith-s-birth-of-a-nation ---------------------Find billetter til vores shows på: https://bentertained.dk/eventpage/vanvittig-verdenshistorie/ Bestil vores bog: www.vanvittigverdenshistorie.dk/bog Se Vanvidsbarometeret og alle mulige andre statistikker - indsamlet af Barometer Bjarke: www.barometerbjarke.dk Støt os på 10er: https://10er.com/vanvittigverdenshistorie/Podcasten kan indeholde reklame. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
