The Films of D. W. Griffith

(book in English)

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by Scott Simmon

Type

Biographies

Subject

Director > David W. Griffith

Keywords

David W. Griffith, filmography, silent cinema

Publishing date

1993

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Collection

Cambridge Film Classics

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 192 pages • 20,86 €
6 x 8 ¾ inches (15 x 22.5 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-521-38820-1
978-0-521-38820-7

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Book Presentation:
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.

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