Blog Outline

To fully understand the message in Bamboozled, you must first understand the history of film. This blog will start with a short history of the film business and the uprising of a young director named D.W. Griffith. Once the history of film is understood, you will understand how and why D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation became so wildly popular despite it's explicitly racist depiction of African Americans. Once the film was released, the damage to the black image in America had been done and it continues to be felt today. Bamboozled brings back the history of black images in film and it has one simple message, has anything really changed since 1915.