For the first half of this week we will study the post Biograph work of director D.W. Griffith. We will watch segments from his feature films The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916) Assignment: Watch and study the concluding segment from D.W. Griffith's Intolerance. Also read pp. 74-79 in your A History of Narrative Film textbook. There will be a quiz on the film and this information on October 7, 2014. No books, or notes of any kind will be allowed during the quiz. |