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Author : Karl Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Birth of a nation (Motion picture)
ISBN : 0571150993
Author : Karl Brown
Publisher : New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Cadreurs - Correspondance
ISBN : 0374100934
Author : Melvyn Stokes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0198044364
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.
Author : Harry M. Geduld
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015020666338
Author : Tom Gunning
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 025206366X
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 : Robert M. Henderson
Publisher : Harvill Secker
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0436192659
Author : Iris Barry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UOM:39015020676543
Author : Scott Simmon
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993-07-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521388201
An introduction to the work of the first widely acknowledged master filmmaker.
Author : Joyce E. Jesionowski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520362673
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.
Author : George Pavlou
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527523999
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.
Author : David Wark Griffith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015046333426
Author : Paolo Cherchi Usai
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781839020162
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. The latest volume assesses Griffith's work in 1914-15. It includes an extensive, multi-authored evaluation of 'The Birth of' 'a Nation.'
Author : Robert Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190660208
How did the US South contribute to the development of film? And how did film shape the modern South? In Fade In, Crossroads, Robert Jackson tells the story of the relationships between southerners and motion pictures from the silent era through the golden age of Hollywood. Jackson reveals the profound consequences of the coincidence of the rise and fall of the American film industry with the rise and fall of the South's most important modern product and export: Jim Crow segregation. He considers southern historical legacies on film, from popular Civil War films and comparably popular lynching films emerging in a time of prolific lynching in the South, to the resilient race film industry whose African American filmmakers forged an independent cinematic movement in defiance of the racial restrictions of both the South and Hollywood. He also traces the influence of film on future participants in the Civil Rights Movement, from prominent leaders such as Martin Luther King and Thurgood Marshall to film-industry veterans like Lena Horne and Paul Robeson to the millions of ordinary people, black and white, who found themselves caught up in the struggle for racial equality in the modern United States.
Author : Don Fairservice
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0719057779
This comprehensive examination of the film-editor's craft traces the development of editing from the primitive forms of early cinema through the upheavals caused by the advent of sound. Don Fairservice explores the challenges to convention that began in the 1960s and which continue to the present day. New digital technologies and the dominance of the moving image have produced a radical rewriting of the rules of audio-visual address. This detailed study outlines a fascinating history, and presents the "how's" and "why's" of film editing, and its complexities in our modern age.
Author : Christopher Beach
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520284357
The image that appears on the movie screen is the direct and tangible result of the joint efforts of the director and the cinematographer. A Hidden History of Film Style is the first study to focus on the collaborations between directors and cinematographers, a partnership that has played a crucial role in American cinema since the early years of the silent era. Christopher Beach argues that an understanding of the complex director-cinematographer collaboration offers an important model that challenges the pervasive conventional concept of director as auteur. Drawing upon oral histories, early industry trade journals, and other primary materials, Beach examines key innovations like deep focus, color, and digital cinematography, and in doing so produces an exceptionally clear history of the craft. Through analysis of several key collaborations in American cinema from the silent era to the late twentieth century—such as those of D. W. Griffith and Billy Bitzer, William Wyler and Gregg Toland, and Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Burks—this pivotal book underlines the importance of cinematographers to both the development of cinematic technique and the expression of visual style in film.
