D.W. Griffith's The birth of a nation :: a history of "the most controversial motion picture of all time" /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Stokes, Melvyn
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Zusammenfassung: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 groundbreaki.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (413 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-393) and index.
ISBN:9780198044369
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9780195336788
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9786611159191
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