| Author Name: | Campbell, Edward D. C. Jr |
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| Date: | 1981 |
| Journal: | Southern Quarterly |
| Volume: | 19(3-4) |
| Topic: | Race and Film |
| Pages: | 107-116 |
The author argues that the major films about the plantation South have reversed the stereotypes, and the black rebellious slave is never condemned for his actions just as earlier films, including The Birth of a Nation, never condemned the white plantation owner. The author concludes that the film industry has gone from one extreme to the other.