Reply #211: Birth of a Nation was an extremely important film for lots of reasons.

[Warren DeMontague]

Watched it in Film School; it was a milestone in narrative cinema and it was a racist pile of crap at the same time.

What would be the point of 'objecting to the racist content' in BOAN now, though? Hell, half the reason people watch it is because it is what it is. Not because it turns them into Klan members, but because it's important, historically, from how fucked up it is.

Also, BOAN didn't create racism, it reflected it. Whether BOAN programmed millions of people to be racist is debatable.

But Birth of a Nation is ONE film. Not ALL films. Are you deconstructing Birth of a Nation or ALL cinema? All cinema from the Early 20th Century? All black and white cinema? Or just that ONE MOVIE?

I don't see much critiquing, in these threads, of ONE particular porno or even ONE advertisement or ONE website. I see a generalized complaint about anything pertaining to visual depictions of sex. Not the same thing.


You also didn't answer my question: Is the "Bend Over Boyfriend" series degrading?