America Is Being Beaten: Visions of the Imperiled Child in D.W. Griffith, Freud, Jenkins, & Jafa

"America is Being Beaten" examines two films by D.W. Griffith through the lens of Sigmund Freud's essay "A Child is Being Beaten" to expose the white supremacist, pedophlic grammar of American cinema.

Ara Osterweil is Associate Professor of English and World Cinema at McGill University. In addition to being a film scholar, she is also an abstract painter, and art critic. Her second book The Pedophilic Imagination: A History of American Cinema is forthcoming from Duke University Press.