The “knowledge” that was taught and spread have affected the way people have viewed other races. this was due to the people in charge of these studies were racist and everyone around them are so they can easily spread news through the media. Back then they didnt have doctors of other races so they had no reason to believe that the studies being done wasnt true. There was no one to prove them wrong. This effected the citizenship and peoples right to vote. It was a decision made from a racist man that have affected millions of peoples lives. although they made puerto rico US territories thry never gave the original people of the land there rights.

I would be using the first video, the MLA format for microsoft word users.

In my opionion the film “The Birth of a Nation” coming out this early on in the film industry set the tones and stereotypes or standards, for other directors and writers. To be able to be display racism like there is nothing wrong with it. I Have been thinking of a specific movie but hoenstly the truth is this is we see this everyday in the media and on tv. they would never make people of color major roles, or if they did they played the role of being a caretaker, a prisoner, or aggressive. if you were a white kid back then you probably wasnt around many blacks if any at all so if the only time you seen one in action is from the perspective of a racist society you would feel that this is normal and would believe you had no reason to display what wasnt real. When African Americans would create films that were trying to kill some of those untrue stereotypes, the whites didnt flock to see it so it never got across to them the audience for the film were people who already understood that. In the actual film “Birth of a Nation” it immediately started with degrading African Americans it shows them “coming to america” and being bought and sold. this implies that whites are superior to blacks.

1. What were the names of the newspaper and the organization started in response to both The Birth of a Nation and white supremacy in general?
2. How do you think the organizations referred to in the previous question were ways to legitimate black Americans’ discourse concerning white supremacy and Jim Crow Laws?
3. What were the prime differences between Trotter’s and DuBois’s approaches when it came to combating white supremacy?
4. When discussions to ban The Birth of a Nation failed, what methods were used to disrupt screenings of the film?
5. What specific, illegal–but often overlooked and unpunished–act of violence against black Americans was common in the United States at this time, and why was The Birth of a Nation seen as a possible accelerant for this ritualized violence?

1. NAACP
2. it was a way to publicly be represented and have someone relate to them
3. one felt we should act with violence
4. they started pro testing to block the film birth of a nation
5. lynching, of blacks, and because they felt that, and white privilage because black film makers would try and tell their point of view but it was shot down and not as big as the birth of a nation film.

1. Mr. Cameron was defending and protecting his daughter until she seen she had interracial kids there. then he was hesitaing about bashing her head in. they believed that interracial mixing could cause an uproar in society and human race and that they would have problems with them.
2. that scene shows how they believed that white supremecy was the way of the world and how things should be they believed that was the way god intended the world to be. this is what they chose to teach and made laws around white supremecy.

1. How is the actor playing Gus costumed? What does this tell us that we should feel about Gus?
2. How is the actor playing Flora costumed? What does this tell us that we should feel about Flora?
3. How is lighting used to make Gus seem menacing?
4. How is the lighting used to make Flora seem innocent?
5. How does the actor walk and what types of actions does he perform as he follows Flora? How does this tell us he’s–for lack of a better term–a predator?
6. What actions and interactions do we see Flora engaged in while she’s being followed by Gus that tells us Flora is childlike?
7. How is the music associated with Gus different than the music associated with Flora?
8. How does cross-cut editing between the Flora-Gus chase scene with Ben, Flora’s older brother, communicate to us the danger that Flora is in?
9. Thinking back and using the theories of discourse and multiliteracies, how would you say the work of writers like John Tyler Morgan and Frederick Hoffman shaped a viewing public that would accept this sequence with few to no reservations?

1. the actor is dressed as a black man with his face painted and is wearing ran down clothes. this tells the audience that he is scary and aggressive and not very clean.
2. she is dressed as a very nice southern white women. this helps the audience to believe she is innocent, she asks for permission to leave which means she is appeared to be very well mannered.
3. they use lighting to focus in on him hiding outside her house and watching her. and pulling flowers from the yard as if he was praying on her.
4. they make flora seem innocent by highlighting the areas and times in the film were she is twirling around and playing with nature around her so freely. she keeps giggling and laughing.
5. in the film they the actor “gus” following behing flora very creepy as if he was a praying on her. his actions were made as if he was harrassing and planning to kidnap or harm flora. or as if he could be sexually harrassing her.
6. she gets easily distracted as she goes to get water, and sits on the tree branch swinging and looking at squirrels laughing.
7. the music in her scenes are more calm, slow, and soft. in his scenes the music is more upbeat and fast.
8. the director keeps switing the film from showing her running to showing a cliff, and the height of it. then they continue to show the dad looking for her and finfing her sweater. they also have gus chasing behing her and appearing to be getting closer and closer.
9. in a time they were living in when this was released it was normal to feel this way towards African Americans and have the hatred they had. they all agreed with this through their discourse communities this included the neighborhoods they lived in their family, and friends and even the media. if the writers could write something like this and it would have to be approved by someone who agrees or see’s the world the same then they would see no wrong with it. what much could a African American do at the time ? everyone who was in control were racist as well. the audience for that film was not for the colored people of america to enjoy they made it for people who shared the same views in life and who were even allowed to go or had the means to which were all whites.

Auteur – french for author used by critics, usually the director who stamped the film with his or her own personality

Diegesis – this includes objects, events, spaces, and the characters that inhibit them. these can include things like actions, and attitudes, that go on in the background but doesn’t necessarily show through the characters

editing – when the film jumps back and forth. they use this for flashbacks in films or to flash forward. this is used alot to tell a story.

focus – this is the area in which the light hits to give a specific area in a scene. like if someone is getting ready to come through a door or head in a certain direction.

genres – the types of films there are and these films are recognized by audiences and producers. these types are distinguished by there narrative or style of a film

mise – en – scene – things that are put into the scene. this includes the settiing, decor, lighting, and costume

story/plot – correctly labelled fabula and syuzhet the story refers to what the audience feels about the events that occur. the events that are directly presented on the film. the order of duration and setting of these events.

scene/sequence – a scene is where a narrative takes place, at a specific time and place.