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Cambridge Film Classics Ser.: Films of D. W. Griffith by Scott Simmon (1993, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521388201
ISBN-139780521388207
eBay Product ID (ePID)209880
Product Key Features
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFilms of D. W. Griffith
SubjectMedia Studies, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts)
Publication Year1993
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPerforming Arts, Social Science
AuthorScott Simmon
SeriesCambridge Film Classics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight10.2 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN92-040921
Dewey Edition20
TitleLeadingThe
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal791.430233092
Table Of Content1. Griffith, film theory and American culture; 2. The shame of the cities: the urban drama at biograph; 3. The female of the species: origins of the women's film at biograph; 4. Mr Griffith's civil war: The Birth of a Nation and family honour; 5. Art, Intolerance, and the work of the movies; Notes; Select filmography; Select bibliography.
SynopsisThe Films of D.W. Griffith serves as an introduction to, and a cultural argument for, the work of the first widely acknowledged master filmmaker., The Films of D. W. Griffith serves as an introduction to, and a cultural argument for, the work of the first widely acknowledged master filmmaker. Situating D. W. Griffith within film history and American studies, Scott Simmon addresses Griffith's competing reputations as a genius of cinematic form and a retrograde purveyor of reactionary and racist tales. His study includes extended discussion of Griffith's controversial drama of the Civil War and Reconstruction, The Birth of a Nation, and of his grandiose historical epic, Intolerance, but identifies his enduring work within the approximately 450 shorter films that he directed for the Biograph Company between 1908 and 1913, years of rapid change in the film industry. Major discussion is given to the evolution of Griffith's Biograph films about contemporary city life and to his early domestic melodramas or 'woman's films'. In this cultural reading, Griffith's films are located at a crisis point between two centuries, drawing power from the popular attitudes of nineteenth-century America as they create the patterns for the twentieth century's most distinctive art form.
LC Classification NumberPN998.3.G76S56 1993
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- 01 Jul, 2020
He’s still with us, after a fashion.
If you want to learn more about the guy, get this book!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
