Griffith was born in Kentucky, in 1875. His father was a wealthy southern farmer. During the war between North and South, he took the side of the Confederates, after the defeat Griffith's family became poor. In 1882, the year of Griffith's father dies, and after his death is that he is bankrupt. Only one person who supported family was older sister Mattie. She worked as a teacher, and gave Griffith his education. Mattie taught Griffith literature by reading; Charles Dickens, Frank Norris, Alan Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, William Shakespeare. English literature of the period in England, as well as in America, was inspired with Victorian morality, and this affected the later style of Griffith. That's why all his films give the aesthetics characteristic of Romanticism and early realism.
Sentimentality, all this is very strongly felt in Griffith's work. He always referred to the literature and human psychology. Griffith was one of the first directors who managed capturing the audience's attention. Griffith was the first directors to speak about a character's feeling. Traditionally his name is associated with the birth of cinema art. Early works of Griffith formed and achieved a high level of short films. He is the first real master of the short film in American cinema. But he wasn't only one person who did the short films. For example, in France, in the studio, "Gaumont" works Louis Feuillade, who in the 1910s would be the author's acclaimed series "Fantomas" and "Vampires." Feuillade did parallel work with Griffith in the same area. He also drew attention to the first actor and began to work with him, developing the principles of acting is cinematic. Yet, his work is has repetition in miniature form that made Griffith. Usually Griffith is known as the author of three-hour films as "Birth of a Nation" and "Intolerance." However, these films he made from the middle 1910s. One of the most important contribution were Griffith made was during period of his work at the studio "Biograph", which begins his way into the film industry.
TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 I. THE EVOLUTION OF BLACK FILM 4 1.1. Blackfacing and Film Shorts 4 1.1.1. Early Vignettes 5 1.1.2. The Coon 6 1.1.3. The Tom 9 1.1.4. The Tragic Mulatto 10 1.1.5. The Mammy 11 1.1.6. The Reportorial Film 12 1.2. The Birth of a Nation 13 1.3. The Jeste...
Griffith, and The Battleship Potemkin, directed by Sergei Eisenstein, it is their similarities that are most intriguing. ... Griffith is found of using animals to symbolize ideas. ... Here Griffith is making a connection between the innocence and delicacy of a white southern girl and that of a squirrel. ... Griffith and Eisenstein were both cinematic geniuses of their time. ... Griffith should be especially noted for his use of animals as symbols; Eisenstein for his pioneering work with montages. ...
Griffith, Sergi Eisenstein, and Dziga Vertov. ... Griffith, Sergi Eisenstein, and Dziga Vertov. ... Griffith was one of Hollywood's first great directors. ... Vertov's visions of editing differed from Griffith. ... As for Eisenstein, he had ties to each Griffith and Vertov. ...
Griffith and The Passion of Joan of Arc directed by Carl Dreyer affirms the fact that anyone can pick up a camera and take a picture or shoot a film. ... Griffith, he naturally and almost subconsciously was able to make this happen without knowing for the most part what he was doing. ... One scene in The Battle at Elderbush Gulch which symbolizes Griffith's technical proficiency is "The Puppies Will Die Outside." ... This simply, but masterfully encapsulates what Griffith is praised for pioneering. ... In reality, what Griffith has done in this film amongst his other works, is proba...
Griffith and "Battleship Potemkin" (USSR 1925) directed by Sergei Eisenstein, are both extraordinary examples of momentous achievements in film history. ... Instead of having all the action in the foreground be in focus and the rest fuzzy, Griffith introduced depth to American filmmaking. ... Griffith uses editing to show parallelism in this scene and was composed very intricately using 55 separate shots. ... In this scene, Griffith uses flashback sequences, which is a fairly new film technique. ... Griffith used this film as a medium to show the world the Civil War from a Southerner's po...
To say that Griffith created a "historically accurate" film is a long stretch. ... Griffith, at first, attempts to show an unbiased view of war's futility, but as the film progresses, it becomes impossible to deny that Griffith's sentiments are with the Confederate South. ... Griffith wildly skews our post-Civil War history to accommodate a warning about giving African-Americans power. ... In order to avoid racial pollution Griffith cast white actors to play the parts of the fierce antagonists. ... Griffith's infamous historical drama is still upsetting to some contemporary v...
The High Court has been criticised from time to time for what is termed Judicial Activism. Is this criticism of the court accurate? In order to answer this question properly the term judicial activism and the role of the High Court must be defined. Dr Paul Johnson (1994-2000, date accessed 30 ...
Mark Griffiths', "Online Video Gaming: What Should Educational Psychologists Know?... This proves Griffiths' assumption that video gaming is becoming popular towards all the age groups is true. ... However, to prevent a sense of concern, Griffiths' states that a genuine gaming addiction is "uncommon." ... " Thus, Griffiths includes this statement to attract females and stimulate their interest. ... However, Griffiths has evidently pointed out that the age group is slowly expanding. ...
Griffith was experimenting with "intercutting". ... Griffith uses the "last minutes rescue" (Film History). ... In order to convey the psychology of the characters, Griffith moved the camera closer to them. ... Here, Griffith uses the framing to reveal more about Elsie's character. ... Griffith's film narrative structure supports this racial ideology. ...
