It is a shame that so many important innovations can be traced back to a film with such a reprehensible ideology. But, as you say, that is history and the power of studying film history is the power to understand where some of the worst and the best impulses in film creation come from.
It is a shame that so many important innovations can be traced back to a film with such a reprehensible ideology. But, as you say, that is history and the power of studying film history is the power to understand where some of the worst and the best impulses in film creation come from.