Birth_of_a_Nation

Birth of a Nation Released over 80 years ago, D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation is regarded, as a classic of American cinema for it’s many new cinematic innovations and refinements, technical effects and artistic advancements, becoming a formative influence and having a recognized impact on film history and the development of film as art. Despite its historical importance in the development of film, its controversial portrayal of African Americans was immediately condemned for its racist overtones, i.e., of the Klu Klux Klan (KKK) portrayed as heroes and Southern Blacks as villains. Plot The film deals with the events leading up to the civil war, the war itself, and the reconstruction of the South. The film is divided into two parts. The first deals with the events leading up to the war, the war scenes and the assassination of President Lincoln. The second part of the film deals with the south’s battle to integrate blacks and whites. The film places two families, one from the North and one from the South into the historical time period. We see the war devastate both families and the relationships between them. Eventually, the blacks in the South are portrayed as lazy, lust filled creatures that are unable to film, war, historical, griffith, techniques, nation, made, lincoln, kkk, griffith’s, birth, art, after, time, theatre, story, south, shots, shot, screen, scene, music, movie, leading, history, film’s, eventually, events, dramatic, deals, blacks, being, assassination, , written, word