Author: Karl BrownPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374100933
Category : Cadreurs - Correspondance
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Adventures with D. W. Griffith
Author: Karl BrownPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374100933
Category : Cadreurs - Correspondance
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Adventures with D. W. Griffith
Author: Karl BrownPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374100933
Category : Cadreurs - Correspondance
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Karl Brown's Adventures with D.W. Griffith
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781350921122
Category : Filmmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
At the age of 90, cinematographer Karl Brown discusses his early work with D.W. Griffith, in particular the making of The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance. The film includes excerpts from those films plus dozens of rare photos of Brown and Griffith working together. .
Focus on D. W. Griffith
Author: Harry M. GeduldPublisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
D.W. Griffith
Author: Robert M. HendersonPublisher: Harvill Secker
ISBN: 9780436192654
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Raoul Walsh
Author: Marilyn MossPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813133947
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Raoul Walsh (1887–1980) was known as one of Hollywood’s most adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an illustrious career and made films that transformed the Hollywood studio yarn into a thrilling art form. Walsh belonged to that early generation of directors—along with John Ford and Howard Hawks—who worked in the fledgling film industry of the early twentieth century, learning to make movies with shoestring budgets. Walsh’s generation invented a Hollywood that made movies seem bigger than life itself. In the first ever full-length biography of Raoul Walsh, author Marilyn Ann Moss recounts Walsh’s life and achievements in a career that spanned more than half a century and produced upwards of two hundred films, many of them cinema classics. Walsh originally entered the movie business as an actor, playing the role of John Wilkes Booth in D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915). In the same year, under Griffith’s tutelage, Walsh began to direct on his own. Soon he left Griffith’s company for Fox Pictures, where he stayed for more than twenty years. It was later, at Warner Bros., that he began his golden period of filmmaking. Walsh was known for his romantic flair and playful persona. Involved in a freak auto accident in 1928, Walsh lost his right eye and began wearing an eye patch, which earned him the suitably dashing moniker “the one-eyed bandit.” During his long and illustrious career, he directed such heavyweights as Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, and Marlene Dietrich, and in 1930 he discovered future star John Wayne.
Thinking in Pictures
Author: Joyce E. JesionowskiPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520318528
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.
D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation
Author: Melvyn StokesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198044364
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie. By going back to the original archives, particularly the NAACP and D. W. Griffith Papers, Stokes explodes many of the myths surrounding The Birth of a Nation (1915). Yet the story that remains is fascinating: the longest American film of its time, Griffith's film incorporated many new features, including the first full musical score compiled for an American film. It was distributed and advertised by pioneering methods that would quickly become standard. Through the high prices charged for admission and the fact that it was shown, at first, only in "live" theaters with orchestral accompaniment, Birth played a major role in reconfiguring the American movie audience by attracting more middle-class patrons. But if the film was a milestone in the history of cinema, it was also undeniably racist. Stokes shows that the darker side of this classic movie has its origins in the racist ideas of Thomas Dixon, Jr. and Griffith's own Kentuckian background and earlier film career. The book reveals how, as the years went by, the campaign against the film became increasingly successful. In the 1920s, for example, the NAACP exploited the fact that the new Ku Klux Klan, which used Griffith's film as a recruiting and retention tool, was not just anti-black, but also anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish, as a way to mobilize new allies in opposition to the film. This crisply written book sheds light on both the film's racism and the aesthetic brilliance of Griffith's filmmaking. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the cinema.
D.W. Griffith
Author: Iris BarryPublisher: New York : Museum of Modern Art
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Author: David Wark Griffith