SexViolHist Bib: Cases: Representations: Films: The Birth of a Nation

»The Birth of a Nation, originally called The Clansman, is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr.'s 1905 novel and play The Clansman.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century | II. Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape Representations: Literary Texts: Thomas Dixon

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Barker, Deborah E. »Moonshine and Magnolias: The Story of Temple Drake and The Birth of a Nation.« The Faulkner Journal 22 (2006): 140-175.

[Info] Barker, Deborah E. »Moonshine and Magnolias: The Story of Temple Drake and The Birth of a Nation.« Faulkner and Whiteness. Edited by Jay Watson. Jackson 2011: 107-146.

[Info] Barker, Deborah E. Reconstructing Violence: The Southern Rape Complex in Film and Literature. Baton Rouge 2015.

[Info] James, Deveryle. “A Zoo of Lust ... A Harem of Fondled Hatreds”: Interrogating Sexual Violence Against Women in Film 1915-2003. Ph.D. Thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2008.

[Info] James, Deveryle. “A Zoo of Lusts ... A Harem of Fondled Hatreds”: An Historical Interrogation of Sexual Violence against Women in Film. Newcastle upon Tyne 2011.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Barker, Deborah. »The Southern Rape Complex: From "The Birth of a Nation" to "Gone with the Wind".« 73^rd Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association. Richmond 2007.