Oscar Micheaux and Black American Cinema

In early American contract, African-Americans were portray in a precise offensive and racist bureau. An fount of this is in D.W. Griffiths 1915 germinate, The have got of a realm. This film is what helped scintillation the beginning of Black American Cinema. An African-American director named Oscar Micheaux responded to Griffiths film and created bity films characterisation African-Americans as being absolutely normal and realistic. This paper pass on discuss how Micheaux changed the way African-Americans were visualised in cinema and how he helped start Black American Cinema. This can be seen by studying some of Micheauxs earliest films including: The Homesteader (1919), deep down Our Gates (1920), and Veiled Aristocrats (1932). \nD.W. Griffiths 1915 film, The Birth of a state was real contentious because of the way subdued men were portrayed. in that respect is a scene in which a blue man attempts to rape a neat woman. This scene tries to make sullen men seem devilish and dangerous. Also all of the black men in the film are shown to be very unintelligent. Mainstream film companies portrayed black men largely as humorous objects dim witted, soggy moving, shiftless caricatures who would not be mainstream audiences (Butters 5). Many of the actors were not raze black. A lot of the actors were snow-covered men dressed in blackface. This film also shows the Ku Klux Klan as being the good guys of the yarn and also being heroic. A deeply racist film glorifying the Ku Klux Klan, The Birth of a Nation was bitterly attacked on its tone ending by the National association for the Advancement of Colored peck (NAACP) and its allies (Stokes 20). This film caused some(prenominal) African-Americans to protest the film. There were hasten riots and protests in many urban cities. The film was very controversial which caused it to be recut and censored. Repeatedly recut by censors who deemed the harrowing sequences of lynching and essay rape too incendiary bomb in the wake of the Chic...