D.W. Griffith: interviews
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…
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- Full title :D.W. Griffith : interviews / edited by Anthony Slide.
Summary
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.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University Press of Mississippi
- Place of Publication:Jackson
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
Notes
Includes filmography and index.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781617032998, 1617032999
- oclc:ocn774024201
- LC Classification:PN1998.3.G76
- Dewey Decimal:791.4302/33092
Table of Contents
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chronology; Filmography; At the Sign of the Flaming Arcs; David W. Griffith Speaks; A Poet Who Writes on Motion Picture Films; Editorials in Films; D.W. Griffith Answers Two Vital Questions; D.W. Griffith Producer of the World's Biggest Picture; Five Dollar Movies Prophesied; Interviews with Prominent Directors: "And the Greatest of These Is"- David W. Griffith; The Story of David Wark Griffith: Part One; The Story of David Wark Griffith: Part Two; The Story of David Wark Griffith: Part Three; The Story of David Wark Griffith: Part Four.
The Story of David Wark Griffith: Part FiveThe Real Story of Intolerance; The Making of a Masterpiece; The Film World's Greatest Achievement; D.W. Griffith Champions England's Natural Light; Took Scenes in the Trenches; Griffith Returns from the Front with Official Pictures Made under Fire- Will Use Them in a Film Spectacle of War; Griffith-and the Great War; Griffith, Maker of Battle Scenes, Sees Real War; Pictures and Projectiles; Life and the Photodrama; How Griffith Picks His Leading Women; Humanity's Language; Griffith Points Out Need of Tragedy on the Screen; Likes San Francisco.
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