This Guy Sucked: D W Griffith with Kellie Carter Jackson

About this episode

This episode discusses the controversial filmmaker D. W. Griffith with historian Kellie Carter Jackson.

Today we’re bringing you a really interesting episode from our friends at This Guy Sucked, a podcast hosted by historian and writer Claire Aubin about the worst people in history. Each episode, Claire sits down with an expert to pull back the scholarly curtain on a terrible person from their research. Because, as they say on the show, it’s never too late to have haters, and you can’t libel the dead. This particular episode is about the early 20th century filmmaker D. W. Griffith whose 1915 fi...

People in this episode

Host: Claire Aubin

Guest: Kellie Carter Jackson

Topics covered

• history
• filmmaking
• D. W. Griffith
• cultural criticism
• historical figures

Keywords

• D. W. Griffith
• This Guy Sucked
• Kellie Carter Jackson
• filmmaking
• history
• cultural criticism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: This Guy Sucked, Brooklyn Public Library