D. W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation - A History of 'The Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time'

Zusatztext ...a fine book...Stokes book is well and clearly written. Informationen zum Autor Melvyn Stokes teaches American history and American film history at University College London. He has also been a visiting fellow at Princeton, a visiting Fulbright Professor at Mount Holyoke College and a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris. He has edited or co-edited nine books, including four for the British Film Institute. Klappentext In this deeply researched and fascinating study, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception, and continuing history of D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation. The 1915 film introduced many new conventions that would soon come to define American cinema, while it also drew large numbers of middle-class patrons to moviegoing for the first time. Though the film was a landmark aesthetic work, it was also a spectacle of unfettered racism, with a storyline that would inspire both bigotry and distrust. This indispensable account sheds light on both its groundbreaking formal qualities and its long shadow, twin sides to one of the twentieth century's most powerful works of art. Zusammenfassung In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this aesthetically ground-breaking and yet highly controversial movie. A must-read for anyone interested in the cinema, it sheds light on both the film's racism and the artistic brilliance of Griffith's filmmaking. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Premiere in Los Angeles 2: Thomas Dixon, Jr 3: David Wark Griffith 4: Making The Birth of a Nation 5: Transforming the American Movie Audience 6: Fighting a Vicious Film 7: Griffiths View of History 8: After Birth 9: Conclusion Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Melvyn Stokes, Stokes Melvyn
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2008
• EAN: 9780195336788
• ISBN: 978-0-19-533678-8
• No. of pages: 413
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History; USA, Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Films, cinema, Social discrimination & inequality, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General