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D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation

Author : Melvyn Stokes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199887514

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D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation by Melvyn Stokes Pdf

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.

The Birth of a Nation

Author : Robert Lang
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813520274

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The birth of a nation follows the lives of two white families divided by, and enduring, the American Civil War, and includes elaborate cameos of historical events such as the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

The Birth of a Nation

Author : Michael T. Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 0253042356

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The Birth of a Nation by Michael T. Martin Pdf

Over one hundred years since it premiered on cinema screens, D. W. Griffith's controversial photoplay The Birth of a Nation continues to influence American film production and to have relevance for race relations in the United States. This work challenges the idea the United States has moved beyond racial problems and highlights the role of film and representation in the continued struggle for equality.

D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation

Author : Melvyn Stokes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0198044364

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D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation by Melvyn Stokes Pdf

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.

The Birth of a Movement

Author : Dick Lehr
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610398244

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In 1915, two men—one a journalist agitator, the other a technically brilliant filmmaker—incited a public confrontation that roiled America, pitting black against white, Hollywood against Boston, and free speech against civil rights. Monroe Trotter and D. W. Griffith were fighting over a film that dramatized the Civil War and Reconstruction in a post-Confederate South. Almost fifty years earlier, Monroe’s father, James, was a sergeant in an all-black Union regiment that marched into Charleston, South Carolina, just as the Kentucky cavalry—including Roaring Jack Griffith, D. W.’s father—fled for their lives. Griffith’s film, The Birth of a Nation, included actors in blackface, heroic portraits of Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and a depiction of Lincoln’s assassination. Freed slaves were portrayed as villainous, vengeful, slovenly, and dangerous to the sanctity of American values. It was tremendously successful, eventually seen by 25 million Americans. But violent protests against the film flared up across the country. Monroe Trotter’s titanic crusade to have the film censored became a blueprint for dissent during the 1950s and 1960s. This is the fiery story of a revolutionary moment for mass media and the nascent civil rights movement, and the men clashing over the cultural and political soul of a still-young America standing at the cusp of its greatest days.

D.W. Griffith: Master of Cinema

Author : Ira H. Gallen
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781460260999

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D.W. Griffith: Master of Cinema by Ira H. Gallen Pdf

Exhaustively researched and accessibly written, D.W. Griffith: Master of Cinema is a remarkably comprehensive biography of the legendary director and his days creating his craft at the American Biograph Company between 1908 through 1913. Meticulously detailed, utilizing a wealth of archival documents and photographs, the book effectively details Griffith’s place as a film pioneer. Even a casual film fan can see the lines being drawn from the techniques Griffith developed to modern cinematic experience. Ira Gallen’s exploration of Griffith’s family and his early life sets the stage for his career, and give great context for who he would become. His intricate details about early stage and film paint such a vivid and evocative picture of the time that you will be truly drawn into another world while reading it.

Closely Watched Films

Author : Marilyn Fabe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520279971

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Closely Watched Films by Marilyn Fabe Pdf

"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.

D.W. Griffith's 100th Anniversary The Birth of a Nation

Author : Ira H. Gallen,Seymour Stern
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781460236550

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D.W. Griffith's 100th Anniversary The Birth of a Nation by Ira H. Gallen,Seymour Stern Pdf

A HISTORY OF THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL MOTION PICTURE EVER MADE A hundred years have passed since the masterpiece of David Wark Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, first appeared on the screens of America, in the winter of 1915. It demonstrated that the cinema, no less than literature and no less than the stage, could become a topic of serious critical, esthetic, intellectual, political, social, and technical discussion. In this way it brought the motion picture into a position of commanding influence in the social life of the American nation. The denunciation continues, and the storm over the film serves as a barometer of the global conflict, involving forces and issues set in motion by, but no means limited to, race. From the beginning it touched off several emotionally and politically explosive, interrelated, parallel controversies—controversy over Griffith; controversy over the film; controversy over the subject-matter and its treatment; controversy over the controversy. As Griffith’s official biographer Seymour Sterns main purpose of his book was to assemble, as extensively as possible, the rapidly vanishing record of what happened. You’ll find Stern’s writing on the subject as controversial as the film itself.

The Clansman

Author : Thomas Dixon
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752373844

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The Clansman by Thomas Dixon Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Clansman by Thomas Dixon

D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation

Author : Michael Randall Hurwitz
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1419642642

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Griffith: I, The Birth of a Nation

Author : Seymour Stern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Birth of a nation (Motion picture : 1915)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012009622

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D. W. Griffith

Author : Anthony Slide
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781617032998

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D. W. Griffith (1875–1948) is one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture. As director of The Birth of a Nation, he is also one of the most controversial. He raised the cinema to a new level of art, entertainment, and innovation, and at the same time he illustrated, for the first time, its potential to influence an audience and propagandize a cause. Collected together here are virtually all of the “interviews” given by D. W. Griffith from the first in 1914 to the last in 1948. Some of the interviews concentrate on specific films, including The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, and, most substantially, Hearts of the World, while others provide the director with an opportunity to expound on topics of personal interest, including the importance of proper exhibition of his and other’s films, and his search for truth and beauty on screen. The interviews are taken from many sources, including leading newspapers, trade papers, and fan magazines. They are often marked by humor and by a desire to please the interviewer and thus the reader. Griffith may not have been particularly enthusiastic about giving interviews, but he seems always determined to put on a good show. Ultimately, D. W. Griffith: Interviews provides the reader with a unique insight into the mind and filmmaking techniques of a director whose work and philosophy is as relevant today as it was when he was at the height of his fame in the 1910s and 1920s.

D.W. Griffith's 100th Anniversary The Birth of a Nation

Author : Ira H. Gallen ,Seymour Stern
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781460236543

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D.W. Griffith's 100th Anniversary The Birth of a Nation by Ira H. Gallen ,Seymour Stern Pdf

A hundred years have passed since the masterpiece of David Wark Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, first appeared on the screens of America, in the winter of 1915. It demonstrated that the cinema, no less than literature and no less than the stage, could become a topic of serious critical, esthetic, intellectual, political, social, and technical discussion. In this way it brought the motion picture into a position of commanding influence in the social life of the American nation. The denunciation continues, and the storm over the film serves as a barometer of the global conflict, involving forces and issues set in motion by, but no means limited to, race. As Griffith's official biographer, Seymour Stern's main purpose of his book was to assemble, as extensively as possible, the rapidly vanishing record of what happened.

D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Birth of a nation (Motion picture : 1915)
ISBN : OCLC:1291348062

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D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation by Anonim Pdf

When it was released in 1915, "Birth of a Nation" was a groundbreaking film that introduced new forms and cinematic techniques. Yet the film is more often referred to as "the most controversial film ever made in the United States." The film was based on the novel The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan by Thomas Dixon, Jr., published in 1905. The Birth of a Nation employs equal parts fiction and history as it follows two families over the course of several years through the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Study of the film is a must for those wishing to examine American social history, the Lost Cause, and attitudes toward African Americans prevalent throughout the United States in the early part of the twentieth century. The principal aim of this digital collection is the presentation of The Birth of a Nation in the most authentic and complete form possible. This descriptive edition has chosen as its point of orientation the film in its first exhibited form, as shown at Clune's Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, on February 8, 1915. The collection does not provide the film in its totality, but provides a shot-by-shot analysis, with annotations, that establishes as accurate an appreciation as possible of the film in its earliest exhibited state.

A Chosen Exile

Author : Allyson Hobbs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674368101

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A Chosen Exile by Allyson Hobbs Pdf

Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions. It also tells a tale of loss. As racial relations in America have evolved so has the significance of passing. To pass as white in the antebellum South was to escape the shackles of slavery. After emancipation, many African Americans came to regard passing as a form of betrayal, a selling of one’s birthright. When the initially hopeful period of Reconstruction proved short-lived, passing became an opportunity to defy Jim Crow and strike out on one’s own. Although black Americans who adopted white identities reaped benefits of expanded opportunity and mobility, Hobbs helps us to recognize and understand the grief, loneliness, and isolation that accompanied—and often outweighed—these rewards. By the dawning of the civil rights era, more and more racially mixed Americans felt the loss of kin and community was too much to bear, that it was time to “pass out” and embrace a black identity. Although recent decades have witnessed an increasingly multiracial society and a growing acceptance of hybridity, the problem of race and identity remains at the center of public debate and emotionally fraught personal decisions.