Stagestruck filmmaker : D.W. Griffith & the American theatre / David Mayer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayer, David.

Series:

Studies in theatre history and culture.

Studies in theatre history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures and theater.

Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948--Criticism and interpretation.

Griffith, D. W.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 1890's to the 1930's, he drew from older, more broadly appealing stage forms of melodrama, comedy, vaudeville, and variety. In Stagestruck Filmmaker, David Mayer brings Griffith's process vividly to life, offering detailed and valuable insights into the racial, ethnic, class, and gender issues of these transitional decades.

Contents:

The mobile theatre

Actor and playwright

Griffith at Biograph

Dramas of Civil War, ethnicity, and race

The Clansman and The birth of a nation

Eclecticism and exploration

Way down East

Twilight revels.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-293) and index.

Includes filmography: p. [277]-280.

ISBN:

9781587298400

1587298406

OCLC:

773567003