D. W. Griffith

epic which made by D. W. Griffith in 1915. Basically, this 3 hours racial melodrama brilliantly chronicles the story between the Northern Stoneman family and the Southern Cameron family who both experienced the Civil War and Reconstruction. However, this film still remains highly controversial ever since it made. Once people mention this film today, the primary concern automatically ignores everything and focuses on how extremely Racial this film has been. In this film, Griffith simply depicts the

The motion picture, The Birth of a Nation, produced and directed by D. W. Griffith and released March 21, 1915. D. W. Griffith and Frank E. Woods, co-wrote the screenplay, which they adapted for the screen from the novel and play The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan by Thomas Jr. Dixon. The movie based on the book began with two families the Stoneman and the Cameron; however, as they grow up the struggles between the north and south became harder to overcome. As the love story

Comparison Between W.D. Griffith and  Quentin Tarantino  W.D Griffith and Quentin Tarantino have a lot of thing in common from the awards they received and their personality as directors. One Thing they both have in common is they both have won academy awards Griffith won the Academy Honorary Award and Tarantino won Best Director. Another thing they have in common is at a young age they both dropped out of school Griffith dropped out to take care of his family Tarantino dropped out to pursue his

D.W. Griffith was an innovative film maker and someone who changed the way people viewed feature length films. He was brilliant, controversial, and complex. He is best known for his film Birth of a Nation and a style of camera shots that would later define how directors work. Birth of a Nation was the blockbuster of its day, but it wasn’t without controversy. D.W. Griffith was successful in breathing new life into the films of the day. However, it was at the cost of racism, politics of the day

Interpreting The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan and the “Kloran” Thomas Dixon Jr. wrote The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (or simply The Clansman) which was based largely on his background in religion. He was a Southern Baptist minister. The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a Christian denomination based in the United States. It is the world 's largest Baptist denomination and the largest Protestant body in the United States. The Ku Klux Klan is fundamentally

WAY DOWN EAST (1920) directed by D. W. Griffith Although, I don’t get to watch movies often, especially the movies between late 1800s and early 1900’s, the movie Way Down East by D.W. Griffith was a movie I truly enjoyed. This is one of the silent movies that doesn’t only serves the purpose of entertainment, but teaches various lessons by various points. More importantly, this movie emphasized the value of the women, even the main character of the movie is a woman name Anna. It was one of the

1916 silent-film Intolerance, D.W. Griffith pioneered editing techniques that helped establish montage as a core component of film language. Griffith set out to unite four disparate storylines under the common theme of love’s eternal battle with intolerance. While Griffith believed this film achieved its goal, some of his contemporaries argued that Intolerance was a “magnificent failure” (Eisenstein, 241). Indeed, Eisenstein proposed that the unification Griffith sought to create was impossible because

Perhaps no other director has generated such a broad range of critical reaction as D.W. Griffith. For students of the motion picture, Griffith's is the most familiar name in film history. Generally acknowledged as America's most influential director (and certainly one of the most prolific), he is also perceived as being among the most limited. Praise for his mastery of film technique is matched by repeated indictments of his moral, artistic, and intellectual inadequacies. At one extreme, Kevin Brownlow

“D.W. Griffith was the first American director to be as well-known as the films he directed, and he was among the very first to insist that filmmaking was an art form” (Lewis 53). This statement is very true. However, the inherent discriminating content in some of his movies also made him one of the hardest to appreciate. One of the most famous examples was The Birth of a Nation (1915), which was in favor of the Ku Klux Klan. After a few more controversial movies, he finally tried to redeem his reputation

My interest in film and episodic television lies within in the desire to join the league of artists who are steadily changing the media portrayal of African American’s. Historically speaking, African American’s have fallen victim to disparaging roles since the birth of film. D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film Birth of a Nation is known for its use of portraying black men, or white men in black face, as uneducated sexual predators while the Ku Klux Klan are praised in the Post-civil wat reconstruction era