D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation

...a fine book...Stokes book is well and clearly written.

Autorentext
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 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.

Inhalt
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

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