Making Noise About Silent Film — Finger Lakes Film Trail

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

by Barbara Tepa Lupack

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER VIEWING

Suggestions for Further Viewing

Finger Lakes Film Trail Race Films/Race Matters: Starting Conversations About Race in America (another HNY program series). Race Films/Race Matters includes an excellent introduction to “Race Films” and features lectures by various scholars as well as links to several seminal race films: Within Our Gates, The Flying Ace, The Scar of Shame, The Emperor Jones, and The Blood of Jesus.

Midnight Ramble: The Story of Race Movies.

The Birth of a Nation.

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.