Tag Archives: D.W. Griffith

the wild bunch

Meet America’s Salafist weirdos and version of the Muslim Brotherhood, D.W. Griffith chapter. Its birth of a nation time.Or a Rocky Horror Picture Show time warp. Obviously, being a racist jerk still must be a vote-getter back in the deep … Continue reading

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sail away: make fiends and influence sheeple

Count your blessings. But in disguise. Arkansas Republicans washing and pressing their white hoodies jest’ in case. They have a DVD copy of Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, and are dusting off the salad day photos of the John Birch … Continue reading

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Broke bank: ballads of bonnie and clyde

Its a type of calling. A kind of priesthood. Except the fire and brimstone has been replaced metaphorically by the Biblical intonations of the high priests of economics. They have either found them and dusted them off from a new … Continue reading

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witch end of the rope: down home hospitality

Ambiguous marketing or a reluctance to take a stand? …. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): ok, here’s a question: exactly who is this book cover design supposed to appeal to? exactly which side of the argument is being made? I love design … Continue reading

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ready, aim, fire: hold the curser till’ you see the white of their eyes

What Hollywood accomplishes best is to repackage. Like transformed food it strips the nutritional qualities into sugar coated and sodium charged calories that create addiction and dependency. The craft, for though there is no art, is a distilling, filtering and … Continue reading

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The Merchant of Venice Plying Big Muddy Waters

Huckleberry Finn is in the public domain.It is unchained and off the perils of indentured labor. Its simply reality television, unfettered by broadcast license and restrictions thrown back at in an untransformed state. This is not hate literature; it was … Continue reading

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PATRIOTIC ROMANCE & WAR DANCE: The Illusion It Was All Worthwhile

There’s an epidemic Stirring passions in young hearts Even the old campaigners Have got it really bad Well we ain’t seen nothing like it Since coronation day But when the street parties sound I’m going underground To keep the rabid … Continue reading

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THE BEAST OF THE EAST:MELODRAMA OF MORALS

“Many of Griffith’s features suffer from sententious moralizing, a sense of God speaking to the masses, and outright racism. But Way Down East highlights the greatness of Griffith without having to sit through the Sermon on the Mount or the … Continue reading

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A KINDER & GENTLER NATION?

Let us be lovers we’ll marry our fortunes together I’ve got some real estate here in my bag So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner’s pies And we walked off to look for America Cathy I said … Continue reading

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DARK KNIGHTS & THE LAST OF THE WHITE COLD LOVERS

”I’d been prepped for understanding by my parents and grandparents, who constantly spoke of the regressive, racially pathological south. They took me to South Carolina almost every summer throughout my youth. I had seen and experienced the ugliness and petty … Continue reading

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