D. W. Griffith: interviews
by ProQuest (Firm), Slide, Anthony
fromConversations with filmmakers series
D.W. Griffith (1875-1948) is one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture. Collected together here are virtually all of the 'interviews' given by Griffith from the first in 1914 to the last in 1948.
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 …
"Documents the 1915 rivalry between a journalist agitator and a controversial filmmaker whose respective political views about a Civil War photoplay villainizing free slaves reignited the American debate between free speech and civil rights."--
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…
"In a scene at the end of the Civil War, James Trotter, a sergeant in an all-black union regiment, marched into Charleston, South Carolina just as the Kentucky cavalry that included Colonel 'Roaring Jake' Griffith fled for their lives. The two men were bit players in the vicious…
Documents the 1915 controversy over the film "Birth of a Nation" framed by the legal and public conflict between journalist Monroe Trotter and filmmaker D.W. Griffith.
"Letterboxed: The Evolution of Widescreen Cinema explores the technological changes of the widescreen technique and how the format has inspired directors and also sparked debates among film critics. Examining early filmmakers such as Buster Keaton and D.W. Griffith and genre pio…
