Pre-WW II Film Representations of African Americans: The 1900s through the 1940s

Topic: Pre-WW II Film Representations of African Americans: The 1900s through the 1940s
Write a few paragraphs on each of the chapter topics in the Bogle text (five chapters in all). In this assignment, you are being asked to show some fundamental understanding of topics such as Black typecasting, The Birth of a Nation, the jesters, the servants, Black independent filmmakers like Oscar Micheaux, Black Entertainers, the New Negroes, and the problem people. Your goal in writing this paper is to summarize these topics to show that you have a basic understanding of the issues of African American representations in American films before WWII.
Read: Ronald Bogle, Chapters 1- 5
Screenings: The Birth of a Nation (dir. D.W. Griffith, 1915, 205 mins)

Documentation: In-text citation and Work Cited section at the bottom of page 6.

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