Applying the work of Swales and Mirabelli, how do you think the discourse communities of law and science shaped the multi-literacies, thinking, and imaginations of audiences watching Birth of a Nation?
Apply the concepts of iris, typage, decor, and costume to the two scenes above. Then, develop an answer about what Griffith wants a viewer to feel about the characters Silas Lynch and Lydia, and therefore biracial Americans, in these scenes.
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