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ISBN10: 1587297906, ISBN13: 9781587297908, [publisher: University of Iowa Press] Hardcover Hardcover with dustjacket, 312 pages; very good condition, light rubbing to dj; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra. [New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2009]
ISBN10: 1587297906, ISBN13: 9781587297908, [publisher: University Of Iowa Press] Hardcover 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 1890s to the 1930s, he drew from older, more broadly appealing stage forms of melodrama, comedy, vaudeville, and variety. In Stagestruck Filmmaker, David Mayer brings Griffiths process vividly to life, offering detailed and valuable insights into the racial, ethnic, class, and gender issues of these transitional decades.Combining the raw materials of theatre, circus, minstrelsy, and dance with the newer visual codes of motion pictures, Griffith became the first acknowledged artist of American film. Birth of a Nation in particular demonstrates the degree to which he was influenced by the racist justifications and distorting interpretations of the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. Moving through the major phases of Griffiths career in chapters organized around key films or groups of films, Mayer provides a mesmerizing account of the American stage and cinema in the final years of the nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth century.Griffiths relationship to the theatre was intricate, complex, and enduring. Long recognized as the dominant creative figure of American motion pictures, throughout twenty-six years of making more than five hundr ...
ISBN10: 1587297906, ISBN13: 9781587297908, [publisher: University Of Iowa Press, Iowa City] Hardcover First Edition 8vo. pp xi, 311. Original publisher's brown boards with quarter black cloth and lettered gilt at the spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white. ISBN: 9781587297908 Very good indeed in very good indeed dust jacket. [London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2009]
Iowa City, , Date: 2009. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Very good indeed in very good indeed dust jacket.. 8vo. pp xi, 311. Original publisher's brown boards with quarter black cloth and lettered gilt at the spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white. ISBN: 9781587297908 2009. ISBN 1587297906 9781587297908 [GB]
ISBN10: 1587297906, ISBN13: 9781587297908, [publisher: University Of Iowa Press, Iowa City] Hardcover First Edition 8vo. pp xi, 311. Original publisher's brown boards with quarter black cloth and lettered gilt at the spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white. ISBN: 9781587297908 Very good indeed in very good indeed dust jacket. [London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2009]
ISBN10: 1587297906, ISBN13: 9781587297908, [publisher: University Of Iowa Press] Hardcover 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 1890s to the 1930s, he drew from older, more broadly appealing stage forms of melodrama, comedy, vaudeville, and variety. In Stagestruck Filmmaker, David Mayer brings Griffiths process vividly to life, offering detailed and valuable insights into the racial, ethnic, class, and gender issues of these transitional decades.Combining the raw materials of theatre, circus, minstrelsy, and dance with the newer visual codes of motion pictures, Griffith became the first acknowledged artist of American film. Birth of a Nation in particular demonstrates the degree to which he was influenced by the racist justifications and distorting interpretations of the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. Moving through the major phases of Griffiths career in chapters organized around key films or groups of films, Mayer provides a mesmerizing account of the American stage and cinema in the final years of the nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth century.Griffiths relationship to the theatre was intricate, complex, and enduring. Long recognized as the dominant creative figure of American motion pictures, throughout twenty-six years of making more than five hundr ...
ISBN10: 1587297906, ISBN13: 9781587297908, [publisher: University of Iowa Press 15 M] Hardcover Stagestruck Filmmaker: D.W.Griffith and the American Theatre (Studies in Theatre History & Culture) (Studies in Theatre History and Culture) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. . [Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2009]
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ISBN10: 1587297906, ISBN13: 9781587297908, [publisher: University of Iowa Press 15 M] Hardcover Stagestruck Filmmaker: D.W.Griffith and the American Theatre (Studies in Theatre History & Culture) (Studies in Theatre History and Culture) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. . [Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2009]
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