The New Commons Film Series: WITHIN OUR GATES
Roberts Learning Center (C-23), University of Maine at Farmington 224 Main Street, FarmingtonOscar Micheaux was one of first African American film directors, and, like Spike Lee in BlacKkKlansman, uses Within Our Gates (1920) to engage in a critical dialogue with D. W. Griffith's epic The Birth of a Nation (1915), a pro-Ku Klux Klan film that both Micheaux and… Continue Reading "The New Commons Film Series: WITHIN OUR GATES"