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BLST101 Film analysis of The Middle Passage

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1. What is the title and subject of the film? The title of the film is The Middle Passage and it’s about the transatlantic slave trade particularly the journey from Africa to America. 2. What period in history was being depicted in this film? The slave trade period – from the 15th centu...

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Film Analysis Worksheet


Prof. Cook—American Ethnic Studies Department


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1. What is the title and subject of the film?

The title of the film is The Middle Passage and it’s about the transatlantic slave trade particularly the journey

from Africa to America.


2. What period in history was being depicted in this film?

The slave trade period – from the 15th century to the late 17th century


3. When was the film produced?

1997


4. What is the mood or tone of the film? How does it affect emotions?

The mood of the film is very sad. It makes one angry to see the inhumane treatment of other human beings by

fellow humans. There is, however, one instance of relief and joy, albeit short lived, when the Amistad

resistance happened and when the slaves are eventually freed and returned to Africa.


5. What are the physical qualities of the film and how does it add to film? (narration, music, special effects,

lighting, etc.)


Some of the outstanding physical qualities of the film include the narration by Deborah Allen, which takes the

viewer through the factors that led to slavery and why it thrived. The expert interviews were also very useful in

explaining this. The music is notably African and sets the mood for the film. As for the lighting, the film uses

darkness in the dungeons used to hold slaves before they left the Africa coast to set the mood and depict how it

felt being inside the prisons. The film also re-enacts how the captured Africans were tired together and

transported, these help the film showcase the inhumanity visually.

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