POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Creative Camera, Silent Film, Melodrama
11 Oct 2016
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Chapter 4 politics in the silent movies (pg. Many movies reflected the social reality of the times. The moving images of the first films powerfully affected viewers. The cabbage fairy was considered to be the first narrative film. In the 1920s sympathetic movie portraits of workers and unions became rare. Attitudes about race and ethnicity were more consistent in the silent era. Depiction of jews in early films was almost always negative. Films that portrayed racial minorities and immigrants, were socially reflective movies. The birth of a nation was the most important film of the silent era, both artistically and politically. Most technically dazzling, with its creative camera movement and angles, close-ups, long shots. Most widely seen production of the time and the strongest influence. Distinct point of view on the events, politics, and politicians of its period. This movie was significant not only because of its content because of the contemporary reaction.
