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Though nothing recently has resembed the early 20th century lynching riots connected with the debut of The Birth of a Nation, the HFA has had its own dealings with angry viewers reacting to the controversial film...
...long held a print of the film, and in one of the more celebrated episodes in the Archive’s history, the founding curator Vlada Petric had to defend the projection booth against a group of offended audience members who wanted to terminate a screening of [The] Birth of a Nation,” Jenkins writes in an e-mail...
Chihwaseon is a sweeping historical epic that centers on the legendary nineteenth century Korean painter Jang Seung-up. Seung-up’s personal drama—his alcoholism, womanizing, and bitter struggle against the conservative academy that scorned his humble birth and unschooled talent—takes place in the milieu of the political and social upheaval resulting from and feeding into the Sino-Japanese...
...Theater songs take the character from one emotional place to another,” she explained, as opposed to their more emotionally static pop counterparts. “A pop lyric is not written to be acted.” But with the birth of hybrid musicals attempting just that, Rybeck rejoined, “a new technique is being born right now on Broadway...
...start of the infamous 1915 silent film The Birth of a Nation, white words on a black screen declare: “A PLEA FOR THE MOTION PICTURE…. We do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue—the same liberty that is conceded to the art of the written word—that art to which we owe the Bible and the works of Shakespeare...