"White Man's Book No Good": D. W. Griffith and the American Indian

Gregory S. Jay

32 citations0/0 files storedCinema Journal

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Cinema History and Criticism Cinema and Media Studies Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis

Abstract

D. W. Griffith made some thirty short films on Indian subjects during the Biograph years. Yet these mostly melodramatic treatments have received little critical attention. Analyzing films such as The Call of the Wild, A Romance of the Western Hills , and The Massacre , this essay explains how the apparently sympathetic representation of the Native American still adheres to the logic of white supremacy eventually enunciated in The Birth of a Nation .

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 32 citations exist upstream.

References

1996Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media 1997Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot.1991D.W. Griffith and the origins of American narrative film: the early years at Biograph 1977Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942 1979The War, the West, and the Wilderness 1997The Birth of whiteness: race and the emergence of U.S. cinema 1995The next American nation: the new nationalism and the fourth American revolution 1980The Pretend Indians : images of native Americans in the movies

Cited by

2003“The Cross-Heart People”: Race and Inheritance in the Silent Western 2020The Hollywood Indian Stereotype: The Cinematic Othering and Assimilation of Native Americans at the Turn of the 20th Century

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.