The Griffith Project, Volume 8: Films Produced in 1914 (The Griffith Project Vols 1-12) - Hardcover

Paolo Cherchi Usai

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844570436 ISBN 13: 9781844570430

Publisher: British Film Institute, 2004

Synopsis

No other silent film director has been as extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than five hundred films has been the subject of a systematic analysis, and the vast majority of his other works still 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 multivolume collection of contributions from an international team of leading scholars in the field. Created as a companion to the ongoing 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. The latest volume assesses Griffith's work in 1914-15. It includes an extensive, multi-authored evaluation of "The Birth of" "a Nation."

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About the Author:

Paolo Cherchi Usai is Senior Curator of the Motion Picture Department at George Eastman House and Director of the L. Jeffrey Seiznick School of Film Preservation. He is the author of Burning Passions (bfi, 1994) which was published in a revised edition by the bfi in 2000, entitled Silent Cinema: An Introduction.

About this edition

• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1844570436
• ISBN 13: 9781844570430
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 202