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PURVEYORS OF SPIRITUAL POISON.
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- Author(s): EISENSTEIN, SERGEI
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Sight & Sound. Oct2024, Vol. 34 Issue 8, p90-95. 6p. 6 Color Photographs.
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The article critiques the reactionary tendencies in American cinema, as discussed by Russian director Sergei Eisenstein in 1947. Topics include early American films like The Birth of a Nation (1915), which celebrated the Ku Klux Klan; films such as The Big House (1930) and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932); and the shift towards more subtle forms of reactionary cinema in later American films like Going My Way (1944), which concealed deeper social issues behind humor and sentimentality.
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