The Traitor Within is a 1923 film promoting the Ku Klux Klan. The Toll of Justice was another Klan film made the same year.[1]

The films succeeded the popular and influential 1915 D. W. Griffith film The Birth of a Nation.[2] British film studies scholar and author Tom Rice wrote about the film in his book White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan (2015).[3]

References

  1. ↑ Rice, Tom (December 13, 2008). ""The True Story of the Ku Klux Klan": Defining the Klan through Film". Journal of American Studies. 42 (3): 471–488. doi:10.1017/S0021875808005537. S2CID 146796962 – via Cambridge University Press.
  2. ↑ Rice, Tom (December 11, 2015). "How the Ku Klux Klan Used Cinema to Become a Force in America". The New Republic.
  3. ↑ Pegram, Thomas R. (2016). "White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan". Civil War Book Review. 18 (2). doi:10.31390/cwbr.18.2.19.

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