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Birth of a Nation, which takes its name from a 1915 D.W. Griffith film about the Ku Klux Klan, is a graphic novel—a sort of long-form comic book—about a black community in St. Louis that secedes from the United States to form “Black Land” after too many of its citizens are denied the right to vote...
Takashi Shimizu, director of both the original Japanese release and the American remake, exhibits a deft hand in the film’s opening third, combining Ozu-like pacing and Hitchcockian suspense with images reminiscent of Thomas Struth’s Shinju-ku (Skyscrapers) series. Indeed, Shimizu’s Tokyo (like Struth’s Tokyo) is an infinitely complex urban cityscape where all the disparate, chaotic elements seem to coalesce in a single symbiotic moment...
...spent $23.1 billion on imported oil. That amounted to 4.4% of GDP, making South Korea more exposed to oil shocks than almost any country in the region. (By comparison, energy spending came to only 2.9% of GDP in Taiwan). "In South Korea, no oil means no economic activity," says Ku Ju Kwon, director of overseas exploration at Korea National Oil Corp...
...Robert C. Harrod, executive director of the regional chapter of what was then called the National Conference of Christians and Jews, now the National Conference of Community and Justice. His hope was that it could help improve race relations in Cincinnati--it was only in 2002 that the Ku Klux Klan stopped its annual mounting of a Christmas tree in the city's main square. The desire for reconciliation is built into the center's DNA. Its focus, says Spencer Crew, its executive director, "is not about finger pointing...
...stupid American.” This attitude is duly reflected in Britian’s Jerry Springer: The Opera—a musical parody of the infamous talk show which lampoons America’s most upstanding citizens, satirizing an incompetent redneck, an aspiring stripper and a Ku Klux Klan member among others...