The Griffith Project, Volume 5: Films Produced in 1911 (The Griffith Project Vols 1-12) - Hardcover

Paolo Cherchi Usai

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0851709052 ISBN 13: 9780851709055

Publisher: British Film Institute, 2001

Synopsis

No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than 500 films has been the subject of a systematic analysis and the vast majority of his other works stills await proper examination. For the first time in film studies, the complete creative output of Griffith - from Professional Jealousy (1907) to The Struggle (1931) - will be explored in this multi-volume collection of contributions from an international team of leading scholars in the field. Created as a companion to the on-going retrospective held by the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, The Griffith Project is an indispensable guide to the work of a crucial figure in the arts of the nineteenth century. With contributions from Eileen Bowser, Tom Gunning, Kristin Thompson, Ben Brewster, Steven Higgins, Richard Koszarski, Scott Simmon, J.B. Kaufman, Russell Merritt, Patrick Loughney, Cooper Graham, Andre Gaudreault, Yuri Tsivian, Richard Allen.

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Review:

"Students of film will be very pleased with this presentation. It may well become the definitive examination of the "father of film's" creative canon" The Silents Majority - Online Journal of Silent Film

About the Author:

Paolo Cherchi Usai is Senior Curator of the Motion Picture Department and director of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, USA, and founder of the annual Pordenone Silent Film Festival. Cherchi Usai's publications include The Griffith Project, co-published by the British Film Institute and Le Giornate, in 12 volumes (1996-2012); The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory, and the Digital Dark Age (2001); and Burning Passions: An Introduction to the Study of Silent Cinema (1994).

About this edition

• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0851709052
• ISBN 13: 9780851709055
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224