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D.W. Griffith's The birth of a nation : a history of "the most controversial motion picture of all time" /
In this deeply researched and fascinating study, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception, and continuing history of D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation. The 1915 film introduced many new conventions that would soon come to define American cinema, while...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this deeply researched and fascinating study, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception, and continuing history of D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation. The 1915 film introduced many new conventions that would soon come to define American cinema, while it also drew large numbers of middle-class patrons to moviegoing for the first time. Though the film was a landmark aesthetic work, it was also a spectacle of unfettered racism, with a storyline that would inspire both bigotry and distrust. This indispensable account sheds light on both its groundbreaki. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (413 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-393) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198044369 0198044364 9780195336788 019533678X 9780195336795 0195336798 9781435617704 1435617703 9786611159191 6611159193 1281159190 9781281159199 |