[PDF] Dw Griffith Papers 1897 1954 eBook

Author : David Wark Griffith
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 19,24 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
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ISBN : 9780890936870

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Accompanied by a printed reel guide with same title, 2nd ed., 1988.

Author : David Wark Griffith
Publisher : Corporation
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 11,98 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Performing Arts
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A guide to the 36 reel microfilm publication of the D.W. Griffith Papers 1897-1954, produced by the Microfilming Corporation of America.

Author : Paolo Cherchi Usai
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 36,11 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1838718974

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No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than 500 films has been the subject of a systematic analysis and the vast majority of his other works still awaits proper examination. For the first time in film studies, the complete creative output of Griffith - from 'Professional Jealousy' (1907) to 'The Struggle' (1931) - will be explored in this multi-volume collection of contributions from an international team of leading scholars in the field.

Author : Paolo Cherchi Usai
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 16,53 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1839020180

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No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than 500 films has been the subject of a systematic analysis and the vast majority of his other works stills await proper examination. For the first time in film studies, the complete creative output of Griffith - from Professional Jealousy (1907) to The Struggle (1931) - will be explored in this multi-volume collection of contributions from an international team of leading scholars in the field.

Author : Jenny Barrett
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 2022-12-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1526164442

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In 1915, American filmmaker D. W. Griffith released a film that went on to become one of the most controversial of all time. Over a century later, The Birth of a Nation continues to stimulate debate on the relationship between Hollywood and racism. This volume reveals new perspectives on Griffith’s film across ten original chapters, re-considering it as text, historical milestone and influence. The volume also includes a helpful timeline that lists key publications and events in Birth’s ongoing history, revealing the rich and stimulating discourse on its art, its cultural impact and its ethical dimensions.

Author : Paolo Cherchi Usai
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1838718966

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No other silent film director has been as extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than five hundred films has been the subject of a systematic analysis, and the vast majority of his other works still await proper examination. For the first time in film studies, the complete creative output of Griffith - from Professional Jealousy (1907) to The Struggle (1931) - will be explored in this multivolume collection of contributions from an international team of leading scholars in the field. Created as a companion to the ongoing retrospective held by the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, the Griffith Project is an indispensable guide to the work of a crucial figure in the arts of the nineteenth century. This volume covers the year 1913 and includes J. B. Kaufman's notes on the Griffith-supervised Liberty Belles and A Fair Rebel, as well as Griffith's first feature, Judith of Bethulia.

Author : Melvyn Stokes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0199887519

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In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie. By going back to the original archives, particularly the NAACP and D. W. Griffith Papers, Stokes explodes many of the myths surrounding The Birth of a Nation (1915). Yet the story that remains is fascinating: the longest American film of its time, Griffith's film incorporated many new features, including the first full musical score compiled for an American film. It was distributed and advertised by pioneering methods that would quickly become standard. Through the high prices charged for admission and the fact that it was shown, at first, only in "live" theaters with orchestral accompaniment, Birth played a major role in reconfiguring the American movie audience by attracting more middle-class patrons. But if the film was a milestone in the history of cinema, it was also undeniably racist. Stokes shows that the darker side of this classic movie has its origins in the racist ideas of Thomas Dixon, Jr. and Griffith's own Kentuckian background and earlier film career. The book reveals how, as the years went by, the campaign against the film became increasingly successful. In the 1920s, for example, the NAACP exploited the fact that the new Ku Klux Klan, which used Griffith's film as a recruiting and retention tool, was not just anti-black, but also anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish, as a way to mobilize new allies in opposition to the film. This crisply written book sheds light on both the film's racism and the aesthetic brilliance of Griffith's filmmaking. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the cinema.