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Over one hundred years since it premiered on cinema screens, D. W. Griffith's controversial photoplay The Birth of a Nation continues to influence American film production and to have relevance for race relations in the United States. While lauded at the time of its release for its visual and narrative innovations and a box office hit with film audiences, it provoked African American protest in 1915 for racially offensive content. In this collection of essays, contributors explore Griffith's film as text, artifact, and cultural legacy and place it into both the historical and transnational contexts of the first half of the 1900s and its resonances with current events in America, such as #BlackLivesMatter, #HollywoodSoWhite, and #OscarsSoWhite movements. Through studies of the film's reception, formal innovations in visual storytelling, and comparisons with contemporary movies, this work challenges the idea the United States has moved beyond racial problems and highlights the role of film and representation in the continued struggle for equality.

Griffith, David Wark --- Influence. --- The birth of a nation $g film

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Silent prayers (1902-1927) -- Censored prayers (1927-1939) -- Foxhole prayers (1939-1945) -- Postwar secular prayers (1946-1963) -- Cynical prayers (1964-1976) -- Revival of prayer (1976-1988) -- Postmodern prayer (1989-2000) -- Millennial prayers (2000-2017).

Motion pictures --- Prayer in motion pictures. --- Religious aspects. --- Aimee Semple McPherson. --- American cinema. --- American dream. --- American silent film. --- Cecil B. DeMille. --- Christianity. --- Cold War. --- D. W. Griffith. --- Death of God movement. --- Great Depression. --- Mary Pickford. --- Roman Catholic Church. --- Ronald Reagan. --- Vatican II. --- Victorian films. --- Vietnam War. --- Wall Street crash. --- World War II. --- apocalypse. --- baby boom. --- blasphemy. --- church history. --- civil religion. --- civil rights movement. --- comic prayer. --- dying prayers. --- exemplary prayer. --- fairy tale. --- fantasy genre. --- film noir. --- horror films. --- how to pray. --- intercessory prayer. --- ironic prayer. --- liberation theology. --- piety in films. --- popular culture. --- postmodernism. --- race cinema. --- race. --- religion and film. --- religious films. --- religious photoplays. --- religious pretenders. --- revelatory prayer. --- science fiction films. --- silent films. --- sports. --- televangelists. --- traditional prayer. --- vindictive prayer.