D.W. Griffith, the Gish Sisters and the origin of "Hollywood Babylon" (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 1)
- Podcast Episode
- 2018
- 56m
This season will interrogate Kenneth Anger's controversial and influential gossip collection, Hollywood Babylon. Is this cult classic a needed subversive attack on Hollywood's false idols, o... Read allThis season will interrogate Kenneth Anger's controversial and influential gossip collection, Hollywood Babylon. Is this cult classic a needed subversive attack on Hollywood's false idols, or a dangerous work of "fake news"? In our first episode, we'll look at how D.W. Griffith's... Read allThis season will interrogate Kenneth Anger's controversial and influential gossip collection, Hollywood Babylon. Is this cult classic a needed subversive attack on Hollywood's false idols, or a dangerous work of "fake news"? In our first episode, we'll look at how D.W. Griffith's follow-up to his racist smash The Birth of a Nation gave Anger the structuring image of h... Read all