Books written by Paul McEwan
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The Birth of a Nation
Assessing its contribution as an art form, while directly grappling with the complexity of the art-or-racism debate, Paul McEwan shows how The Birth of a Nation has had a central role in the development of film and Film Studies worldwide.
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Bruce McDonald's Hard Core Logo
Keithley's band D.O.A. were formed in the late 1970s and released their first album, Something Better Change, in 1980, followed by Hardcore '81, which was apparently the first use of the word hardcore to refer to punk rather than ...
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The Birth of a Nation
Assessing its contribution as an art form, while directly grappling with the complexity of the art-or-racism debate, Paul McEwan shows how The Birth of a Nation has had a central role in the development of film and Film Studies worldwide.
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Bruce McDonald's 'Hard Core Logo'
And once we accept that McDonald's film, and filmic adaptation more generally, is a legitimate form of art, it becomes impossible to justify any criterion of cultural value that excludes what has followed the film, whether it is a comic ...
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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 racist 1915 epic The Birth of a Nation.
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In the Shadow of The Birth of a Nation: Racism, Reception and Resistance
In contrast, the Notting Hill of the early sixties, known for its poor housing conditions, was recovering from violent hostility between white working-class residents and West Indian migrants, culminating in the race riots of 1958.
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Bruce McDonald's Hard Core Logo
Keithley's band D.O.A. were formed in the late 1970s and released their first album, Something Better Change, in 1980, followed by Hardcore '81, which was apparently the first use of the word hardcore to refer to punk rather than ...
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Cinema's Original Sin: D.W. Griffith, American Racism, and the Rise of Film Culture
... realist and modernist version of history that depends on traditional notions of facts and evidence. This simple argument for realism fails to account for the status of history in 1915, relying as it does on our own distance from the ...