African American Representation in Silent Film: D.W. Griffith and the Birth of Defamation

by Barbara Tepa Lupack

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING

Suggestions for Further Reading

 ● Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in America, 3rd ed. (New York: Continuum, 1994).

● Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence, Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000).

● Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser, eds. Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001).

● Thomas Cripps, Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977).

● J. Ronald Green, Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000).

● Robert Lang, ed. The Birth of a Nation (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1994).

● Daniel J. Leab, From Sambo to Superspade: The Black Experience in Motion Pictures (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975).

● Dick Lehr, The Birth of a Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America’s Civil War (New York: PublicAffairs, 2014).

● Barbara Tepa Lupack, ed., Early Race Filmmaking in America (New York: Routledge, 2016).

● Barbara Tepa Lupack, Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2014).

● Henry T. Sampson, Blacks in Black and White: A Source Book on Black Films, 2nd ed. (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995).

● Richard Schickel, D.W. Griffith: An American Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984). 

● Seymour Stern, D.W. Griffith’s 100th Anniversary The Birth of a Nation (Friesen Press, 2014).

● Melvyn Stokes, D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation: A History of “The Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time,” Illustrated Edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).

The Finger Lakes Film Trail program series Making Noise About Silent Film: Conversations About Cinema, Culture, and Social Change is made possible by an Action Grant from Humanities New York, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Humanities New York has been a valued financial supporter of the Finger Lakes Film Trail since its inception in 2018.