Released to great fanfare by MGM Studios in 1929, King Vidor’s film *Hallelujah* represented a striking evolution in Hollywood’s engagement with race since D.W. Griffith’s 1915 *Birth of a Nation*. Identify as many aspects of this evolution as you can, and discuss several of the most important. (Put another way, what are some of the major differences with respect to race in these two films?)
