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Up-market demagogue - 2

Monday, 10th March 2008

Now this is public-service broadasting at its best... Driving home from town last week, I happened to tune in to the edition of Night Waves devoted entirely to  D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation".  (I've never watched the whole movie. I can't take "Gone with the Wind" either.) It's a fascinating programme with a panel including that tireless film historian Kevin Brownlow.  The most interesting part of the conversation turned on the movie's breathtaking racism. Can you make a masterpiece that is also thoroughly objectionable? Yes, of course. Some of the most blatant scenes pop up in this montage, set to Public Enemy's  "Burn, Hollywood, Burn.". If, like me, you can't stand rap, just turn the volume off.

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