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(Yale Film Studies website: https://filmanalysis.yale.edu/) Notes on “Basic Terms” : Auteur: French for “author”. Used by critics writing for Cahiers du cinema and other journals to indicate the figure, usually the director, who stamped a film with his/her own “personality”. Diegesis: The diegesis includes objects, events, spaces and the characters that inhabit them, including things,Continue reading “HW: 3/26”

Throughout the Birth of a Nation video from 47 – 48:50 the scene is very dark. I feel Griffith wants a viewer to feel sad for the woman and her family. The family is all curled up in a ball together and it looks like the man is trying to keep everyone feeling calm andContinue reading “CL: 3/26”

Annotations of the Wikipedia entry on Birth of a Nation: Birth of a Nation is a American silent epic drama film that was directed and co-produced by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. This film was made in the San Fernando Vally (California). It premiered in theaters in 1995. The film was based onContinue reading “HW: 3/12”

What’s your initial reaction to the film? “The Birth of a Nation” from 1915 is a very old fashion and I took it as very racist. It is very historical. This film is a great example of discourse and how it shapes worldviews for people and real life events. Watching this film makes me thinkContinue reading “CL: 3/12”

Notes from today: Warrant – unspoken vales a writer thinks he shares with his readers. These warrants are steeped and come out of the discourse of their specific discourse community Argument style (evidence, reason, format, genre) comes from the discourse community. Knowledge – is made through discourse and creates multiplicities for individual to use.  Continue reading “CL: 3/3”

Come up with any revisions or inclusions you’d like to see in the final draft: I read everything careful and I feel everything in this draft is great to me. There is nothing I would add to it. Maybe this draft could be more to the point though and not go into much detail. SomeContinue reading “HW: 2/27”

Now let’s break into groups and work with John Tyler Morgan’s “The Race Question in the United States”: Claim– Morgan thinks African Americans are not to the whites level and shouldn’t be voting. And if they start getting more privileges there will be a downfall. He feels whites are superior and they get the rightsContinue reading “CL: 2/27”

Annotations of “Strivings of the Negro People”: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois established himself as the foremost African American intellectual of the twentieth century. Du Bois wrote important works of history, sociology, prose fiction, and essays. He was also an important political leader , one of the founders in 1909 of the National Association forContinue reading “HW: 2/25”