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They invented the expressive close-up, with its insight into psychology and memorable illustration of behavior. Gish deserved defense from every filmmaker and arts person in the country for the way she and Griffith distinguished human expression. “What about the 50,000 who didn’t sign?” No outcry from Gish Prize recipients Laurie Anderson, Spike Lee, Bob Dylan, Suzan-Lori Parks, or Anna Deavere Smith.If American art and political history were taught well and seen clearly, more names and voices would be raised in outrage. This showed complete disregard for Griffith’s significance to film form and to American cultural history.Last week, producer-publicist Mike Kaplan and historian Joseph McBride released the petition signed by over 50 film-culture figures. Griffith’s name from its annual awards (soon followed by the National Board of Review).

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Punishing Gish is part of an ongoing series of cultural defamations that began in 1999 when the Directors Guild of America stripped D. Her worthiness was like a public statue of the unknown soldier her commemoration should be the safekeeping of educators and cultural guardians who make sure that students and the public receive proper information about our cultural heritage.So when I was asked to sign a petition objecting to Gish’s mistreatment, I agreed with its declaration. BGSU defended the censure and made lame excuses about “an inclusive learning environment.” Higher education sinks continuously lower in the dark age of political correctness.No one at BGSU was educated about Gish’s eminence. Their poorly informed fervor cowed BGSU administrators even though Gish in her will endowed the college with her archives and an honorarium prize for arts. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1916), featuring Gish, BGSU students sought Soviet-style revenge. criminal-justice system, which cites as proof carelessly incorporated footage of D. A victim of Millennial rewriting of inconvenient history, she has had her name removed from an on-campus theater.After a screening of Ava DuVernay’s propaganda documentary 13th, about racism in the U.S. For members of the Black Student Union at Bowling Green State University, in Ohio, Gish is a pariah. Gish was a key figure, acting in numerous classics from the silent era and into the 1980s.

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Lillian Gish is considered America’s greatest film actress by most people who know anything about movie history.