Stagestruck Filmmaker: D. W. Griffith & the American Theatre

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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 Griffith's process vividly to life, offering detailed and...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1587297906

ISBN13:9781587297908

Release Date:March 2009

Publisher:University of Iowa Press

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.6" x 10.6"

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