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Sergei Eisenstein on “The Birth of a Nation”

by Joan Neuberger The great Soviet film pioneer, Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), shared many of the Eurocentric views of his day but throughout his career he was outspoken in his opposition to racism. He was also a lifelong admirer of D.W. Griffith, another great innovator in the early period of cinema and the director of the notorious 1915 […]

Notes From the Field: Trinity College, Cambridge and the Accidents of Research

I was reminded of the accidents of research recently as I was dining at High Table in Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

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