Stagestruck filmmaker : D.W. Griffith & the American theatre /
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 melo...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2009.
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Colección: | Studies in theatre history and culture.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The mobile theatre
- Actor and playwright
- Griffith at Biograph
- Dramas of Civil War, ethnicity, and race
- The Clansman and The birth of a nation
- Eclecticism and exploration
- Way down East
- Twilight revels.