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Author |
: John L. Fell |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 412 |
Release |
: 1983 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520047583 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520047587 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Film Before Griffith by : John L. Fell
Author |
: Tom Gunning |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 334 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 025206366X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780252063664 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (6X Downloads) |
Synopsis D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film by : Tom Gunning
The legendary filmmaker D. W. Griffith directed nearly 200 films during 1908 and 1909, his first years with the Biograph Company. While those one-reel films are a testament to Griffith's inspired genius as a director, they also reflect a fundamental shift in film style from "cheap amusements" to movie storytelling complete with characters and narrative impetus. In this comprehensive historical investigation, drawing on films preserved by the Library of Congress and the Museum of Modern Art, Tom Gunning reveals that the remarkable cinematic changes between 1900 and 1915 were a response to the radical reorganization within the film industry and the evolving role of film in American society. The Motion Picture Patents Company, the newly formed Film Trust, had major economic aspirations. The newly emerging industry's quest for a middle-class audience triggered Griffith's early experiments in film editing and imagery. His unique solutions permanently shaped American narrative film.
Author |
: Charles River Editors |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 82 |
Release |
: 2020-01-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798606187539 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis D.W. Griffith by : Charles River Editors
*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary reviews of Griffith's movies *Includes a bibliography for further reading "Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen." - D.W. Griffith He was a pioneering film director who had 518 films to his credit. His work spanned the silent and sound eras. Most of his films were completed in a span of 15 years. But today he is known only for one of his films, one considered by historians to be a landmark in cinema as well as the most controversial ever made. He could not escape the controversy of this one film before he died in relative obscurity, his contributions to the motion picture industry forever marred. The story of D.W. Griffith is one of triumph and tragedy, of a man who almost singlehandedly created the American motion picture industry, but whose prejudices and ego have permanently colored how he is perceived. In 1958, James Agee wrote of Griffith and his time, "This was the only time in movie history that a man of great ability worked freely, in an unspoiled medium, for an unspoiled audience, on a majestic theme which involved all that was, and brought to it, besides his abilities as an inventor and artist, absolute passion, pity, courage, and honesty. He achieved what no other known man has ever achieved. To watch his work is like being witness to the beginning of melody, or the first conscious use of the lever or the wheel, the emergence coordination, and first eloquence of language, the birth of an art, and to realize that this is all the work of one man." It would be an overstatement to say that D.W. Griffith created Hollywood; but Hollywood would have been quite different without his complicated genius. As historian Richard Griffith put it, "the origins of older arts are lost in prehistory, their creators unknown or barely guessed at," but for the movies, "we have an almost complete record of the 'birth of an art.' The creator of film art was David Wark Griffith." D.W. Griffith: The Life and Legacy of the Hollywood Director Who Made The Birth of a Nation profiles Griffith's upbringing and his career, profiling the notorious movie that he continues to be remembered by. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Griffith like never before.
Author |
: Scott Simmon |
Publisher |
: CUP Archive |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 1993-07-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521388201 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521388207 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Films of D. W. Griffith by : Scott Simmon
An introduction to the work of the first widely acknowledged master filmmaker.
Author |
: Karl Brown |
Publisher |
: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 251 |
Release |
: 1973-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0374100934 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780374100933 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Adventures with D. W. Griffith by : Karl Brown
Author |
: Iris Barry |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1940 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0870706837 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780870706837 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis D. W. Griffith by : Iris Barry
Essay by Iris Barry.
Author |
: Marilyn Fabe |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2014-10-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520279971 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520279972 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Closely Watched Films by : Marilyn Fabe
"Through detailed examinations of passages from classic films, Marilyn Fabe supplies the analytic tools and background in film history and theory to enable us to see more in every film we watch"--Page [4] of cover.
Author |
: Lillian Gish |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 476 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106010136551 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me by : Lillian Gish
Author |
: David Mayer |
Publisher |
: University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages |
: 311 |
Release |
: 2009-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781587298400 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1587298406 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stagestruck Filmmaker by : David Mayer
An actor, a vaudevillian, and a dramatist before he became a filmmaker, D. W. Griffith used the resources of theatre to great purpose and to great ends. In pioneering the quintessentially modern medium of film from the 1890s to the 1930s, he drew from older, more broadly appealing stage forms of melodrama, comedy, vaudeville, and variety. In Stagestruck Filmmaker, David Mayer brings Griffith’s process vividly to life, offering detailed and valuable insights into the racial, ethnic, class, and gender issues of these transitional decades. Combining the raw materials of theatre, circus, minstrelsy, and dance with the newer visual codes of motion pictures, Griffith became the first acknowledged artist of American film. Birth of a Nation in particular demonstrates the degree to which he was influenced by the racist justifications and distorting interpretations of the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. Moving through the major phases of Griffith’s career in chapters organized around key films or groups of films, Mayer provides a mesmerizing account of the American stage and cinema in the final years of the nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth century. Griffith’s relationship to the theatre was intricate, complex, and enduring. Long recognized as the dominant creative figure of American motion pictures, throughout twenty-six years of making more than five hundred films he pillaged, adapted, reshaped, revitalized, preserved, and extolled. By historicizing his representations of race, ethnicity, and otherness, Mayer places Griffith within an overall template of American life in the years when film rivaled and then surpassed the theatre in popularity.
Author |
: George Pavlou |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 166 |
Release |
: 2018-12-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781527523999 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1527523993 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Suspense and Resolution in the Films of D.W. Griffith by : George Pavlou
This book offers a significant and original contribution to studies on D.W. Griffith and film, through a systematic analysis of the director’s chase scenes, which create suspense and resolution in his films. The predominance of the emphasis of building suspense differs in the various stages of his chase scenes. The primary source of material discussed here is Griffith’s films after 1913 when he left the Biograph Company. Griffith’s post-Biograph films are more complete and representative of his techniques than his earlier films, which were subject to financial constraints while he was still innovating and developing his cinematic techniques. Most of his films used in this analysis were provided by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The purpose of this study is to determine a definition of a Griffithian chase scene in terms of his editing techniques. Categories are established, defining specific tools. This is done by determining and documenting consistencies, comparisons, and specific patterns occurring in his chase scenes that generally do not occur in his general editing. Griffith’s basic mechanics in editing are filmic time and space, parallel action, referential crosscutting, and decomposition. A major finding in this book is that Griffith’s chase scenes are the most important part of his films in terms of suspense and resolution. His chase scenes are complex, unique and sometimes even unpredictable. As such, this is an important new work on D.W. Griffith, and will be of interest to scholars and others interested in both the director and film, and will also be an asset to libraries and bookstores.