The rebirth of a nation: glorifying eugenics in a cult classic for our times.(300)(Critical essay)

From: Colorlines Magazine | Date: September 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

300 IS ARGUABLY THE MOST RACIALLY charged movie since D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation. In true post-9/11 form, Zack Snyder's film turns brown into the new Black; Persians are depicted as bloodthirsty savages thwarted in the Battle of Thermopylae by a small contingent of freedom fighters--with noticeably paler skin--looking to preserve democracy at all costs. This eerily resembles the 1915 epic celebrating the Ku Klux Klan's rise during Reconstruction to defend Southern whites' dignity and honor against what were then seen as recently liberated Black insurgents. Like ...

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