Griffith, D. W.

Interviews: D.W. Griffith

by Slide, Anthony, Griffith, D. W.

fromConversations with filmmakers series

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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 for the first tim…

D.W. Griffith [Texte imprimé]: Interviews

by Slide, Anthony

fromConversations with filmmakers series

0 Type: Book

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 …

Stagestruck filmmaker: D.W. Griffith & the American theatre

by Mayer, David

fromStudies in theatre history and culture

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"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 appeali…