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D. W. Griffith
Interviews
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D. W. Griffith (1875-1948) is one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture. As director of The Birth of a Nation, he is also one of the most controversial. He raised the cinema to a new level of art, entertainment, and innovation, and at the same time he illustrated, for the first time, its potential to influence an audience and propagandize a cause.
Collected together here are virtually all of the "interviews" given by D. W. Griffith from the first in 1914 to the last in 1948. Some of the interviews concentrate on specific films, including The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, and, most substantially, Hearts of the World, while others provide the director with an opportunity to expound on topics of personal interest, including the importance of proper exhibition of his and other's films, and his search for truth and beauty on screen.
The interviews are taken from many sources, including leading newspapers, trade papers, and fan magazines. They are often marked by humor and by a desire to please the interviewer and thus the reader. Griffith may not have been particularly enthusiastic about giving interviews, but he seems always determined to put on a good show.
Ultimately, D. W. Griffith: Interviews provides the reader with a unique insight into the mind and filmmaking techniques of a director whose work and philosophy is as relevant today as it was when he was at the height of his fame in the 1910s and 1920s.
From the back cover:
Interviews with one of the great early film directors, maestro of The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, and Hearts of the World
About the Author:
Anthony Slide is the author of seventy-five books, including The Griffith Actress and The Films of D. W. Griffith, co-authored with Edward Wagenknecht. In 1990, he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Bowling Green University, at which time he was hailed by Griffith's most famous actress, Lillian Gish, as "our preeminent historian of the silent film."
See the publisher website: University Press of Mississippi
See the complete filmography of David W. Griffith on the website: IMDB ...
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America's First Women Directors, Rowman & Littlefield Edition
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The Encyclopedia of British Film (2021)
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Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Magnificent Obsession (2018)
The Outrageous History of Film Buffs, Collectors, Scholars, and Fanatics
Subject: Sociology
A Special Relationship (2015)
Britain Comes to Hollywood and Hollywood Comes to Britain
Subject: History of Cinema
It's the Pictures That Got Small (2014)
Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age
Dir. Anthony Slide
Subject: Director > Billy Wilder
Hollywood Unknowns (2012)
A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins
Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine (2010)
A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers
Subject: On Films > Movie magazines
Silent Players (2002)
A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses
Subject: Silent Cinema
De Toth on De Toth (1997)
Putting the Drama in Front of the Camera
by Andre De Toth and Anthony Slide
Subject: Director > André De Toth
> On a related topic:
D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film (1993)
The Early Years at Biograph
by Tom Gunning
Subject: Director > David W. Griffith
D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (2008)
A History of 'The Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time'
Subject: One Film > The Birth of a Nation
Thinking in Pictures (2022)
Dramatic Structure in D. W. Griffith's Biograph Films
Subject: Director > David W. Griffith
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