• I am using Microsoft word for my paper

• People were still trying to say that the 14th amendment is not allowed to be a thing
• Tourgee argued that the separation laws were not for the public good. That law was only benefiting white’s, making sure they are happy and superior over blacks
• Grady was an advocate of the New South
• He thought of radical reconstruction as a revolution in three steps: establish equal economic rights for blacks, equal political rights, let them have the right to vote, equal social and civil rights.
• Grady believed there was a natural difference between blacks and white.

Mismeasure of man

• There always seems to be a hierarchy when it comes to race
• Some people chose to use the bible to prove their point about whites being in power and there being a lower view of black people

• Jim Crow Car- both races had to ride in separate vehicles since they were not the same.
• I think it’s totally wrong for the government to try to scare people off by making harsh laws and punishments even though this supposed to be a country of equal opportunity. The laws were mean’t to benefit the whites during Plessy vs Ferguson.
• Tourgee was the leading white spokesman for people of color
• Plessy was born free in 1862, he was only 1/18th African blood and his family spoke french
• Tourgee had Plessy violate a law so he could build a case against the law. So Plessy sat in the car that was for whites.

There was a scene in the movie where Gus is following the young girl flora. This scene in itself tries to portray African American males are depicted as animals that are always trying to get with a white woman which gives blacks a negative stigma because in this time period intermix of races was looked down upon.  The law and science discourse communities helped push the idea that blacks are inferior and that the Ku Klux Klan that killed Gus was not necessarily a bad thing.  This would definitely cause white audience to see that group (KKK) and this idea as a positive movement which is what caused the historical time period to be even more a mess. 

• Auteur- film director who influences their films a lot that they are called an author.
• Diegesis- objects, events, spaces and the characters that make up the story portrayed.
• Editing- joining together of clips of film into a single filmstrip
• Flashback/forward- events of plot no longer match order of story. Going forward in time to see the future of an event and back to see the past.
• Focus- degree to which light rays pass through the lens
• Genres- types of film
• Mise-en-Scene-the setting, the decor, the lighting and the costumes used to intensify a particular scene.
• Story/plot- what the audience infers on the basis of what they are shown
• Scene/Sequence- segment of narrative film
• Shot- single stream of images

Mise-en-Scene

• Decor- the objects contained in and the setting of a scene
• Rear Projection- used to portray a setting without having to be there
• Lighting- profound effect on the way an image is perceived
• There are three forms of lighting: 3-point, High key, low-key
• Space- determine mood or relationships between elements in the diegetic world
• Frontality-staging of character so that they face the camera square on
• Matte shot- combination of two photographic images
• Costume- Clothes a character wears

Editing

• cheat cut- mismatches position of figures or objects in scene
• cross cutting/parallel editing- alternates shots of two or more lines of action
• dissolve-transition btwn two shots, first image gradually disappears
• Iris- a round moving mask
• Establishing / reestablishing shot- shows spatial relations
• shot/reverse shot- two or more shots edited together that alternate characters
• Superimposition- exposure of more than one image on the same film strip
• wipe- transition

• Based on a novel called “The Clansman” which was written by Thomas Dixon.
• Focuses on two families that live in the south and north after civil war and during reconstruction era.
• The KKK were portrayed as hero’s and African American men as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women.
• The boys from both families went in the war and died.
• Character named Gus accidentally murders one of the families daughters and gets killed by the KKK.
• 1st part of film focused on Civil war and the second focused on Reconstruction which is where all the action happened.

I actually had no problem with the discussion covenant, it all seemed pretty clear and self explanatory.

• Science was used to decide that white blood in an individual mean’t they were more intelligent so if you were black then your blood is not white so therefore less intelligent.
• Hoffman assumes people will not intermix because it would be the end of our kind.
• He tries to make a point that no one in the world has tried to intermixed
• Hoffman argues that the union of two races is in violation of a natural law
• Hoffman says that if you were in a relationship with the opposite race then you were considered bad people or bad luck
• Hoffman says that those who intermix are inferior to everyone else

Mismeasure of Man

Comparing different ethnicity skulls and brains to see if there is a difference of intelligence.