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Birth of A Nation: Art or Propaganda


Mankind, engaging in war, driven by whatever instincts guide him, seeks
to keep the defeats and victories of battle in his memory and on his conscience.
To accomplish this men have used paint and canvas, ink and paper, or instrument
and song in their effort to communicate the tragedy and glory of war. Never,
before the career of D.W. Griffith had anyone attempted to bring the subject to
film. The result of his efforts, weaknesses aside, mark a change in attitude
towards film as a media. Perhaps audiences previously going to a picture
expected emotional manipulation. After all, years before the film Birth of a
nation, makers of film employed techniques to evoke pathos from viewers; whether
through the use of a sobbing mother, a frightened child or what have you. In
this respect the film was not a ground-breaker; However, through its effective
use of devices such as symbolism, foreshadowing and allusions, as well as
building on and arguably......

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