That poster is disturbing.

Oct 26, 2021

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ashbacks, night-time photography, split-screens, parallel editing, and more. Yet he also created a narrative that featured African Americans (played by white actors in blackface) as a collective villain; a viol… close-ups, panning, flashbacks, night-time photography, split-screens, parallel editing, and more. Yet he also created a narrative that featured African Americans (played by white actors in blackface) as a collective villain; a violent, lustful force that ravages innocent white virgins, and a force that can only be kept at bay via the Ku Klux Klan, who incredibly emerge from the picture as a heroic group of people.

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Simon Dillon

That poster is disturbing. Interesting on the innovations found in the film. This is a piece of history I’ll skip but it certainly informs us of how that movie functioned at the time and its ripple effect into the future.

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