Paperback • 2009 • English

Stagestruck filmmaker : D.W. Griffith and the American theatre

Name: Stagestruck filmmaker : D.W. Griffith and the American theatre
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By David Mayer

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About the book

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 valuable insights into the racial, ethnic, class, an...Show more

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9781587297908

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Iowa City : University of Iowa Press

Published year

2009

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English

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Stagestruck filmmaker : D.W. Griffith and the American theatre

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Paperback

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