MARC record from Internet Archive

LEADER: 05907cam 2200697 a 4500
001 ocm00298505
003 OCoLC
005 20191224094449.0
008 720412s1972 nyuacf bq 001 0beng
010 $a 75182425
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$dOCP$dLAL$dSTF$dAU@$dUKMGB$dEUM$dOCLCO$dOKN$dOCLCF$dOCLCQ$dVPI$dBUR$dNLC$dOCLCQ$dOCLCO$dOCLCQ$dTFW$dOCLCQ$dOCL$dULY$dFQG$dJDP$dOCLCO$dEZ9$dOCL$dNTE$dCPO$dOCLCO$dOCL$dOCLCO$dOCLCA$dOCLCQ$dOCLCO
016 7 $a001649404$2Uk
016 $a(AMICUS)000001290927
019 $a3291808$a39179691$a220761090$a781708538$a986550483$a1029395018$a1030379094$a1031427799$a1043172336$a1056015630$a1056832306$a1058642307
020 $a019501541X
020 $a9780195015416
035 $a(OCoLC)298505$z(OCoLC)3291808$z(OCoLC)39179691$z(OCoLC)220761090$z(OCoLC)781708538$z(OCoLC)986550483$z(OCoLC)1029395018$z(OCoLC)1030379094$z(OCoLC)1031427799$z(OCoLC)1043172336$z(OCoLC)1056015630$z(OCoLC)1056832306$z(OCoLC)1058642307
037 $c$10.95.
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPN1998.A3$bG748
082 14 $a791.43/0233/0924$aB
100 1 $aHenderson, Robert M.
245 10 $aD.W. Griffith :$bhis life and work /$cRobert M. Henderson.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1972.
300 $aix, 326 pages, 77 unnumbered pages of plates$billustrations, portraits$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a"It has been said that after Griffith, nothing new has been added to the motion picture. The one-time Kentucky farm boy, high school dropout and itinerant stock company actor revolutionized the movie industry, transforming a fledgling attraction into the world's most powerful entertainment medium. D.W. Griffith produced and directed The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Broken Blossoms, and Orphans of the Storm. He launched the screen careers of Mary Pickford, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, and Lionel Barrymore. From the ranks of his assistants came Erich von Stroheim, Raoul Walsh, and Mack Sennett. Yet the man who was known as "the Master" and "the Belasco of the screen" ended his career in obscurity, unemployed and ignored by the industry he had helped create. With compassion and clarity, this book traces the rise and fall of David Wark Griffith. It presents a fully faceted portrait of a theatrical personality who lived by grandiloquent gestures and practiced exaggerated Southern gentility. [Author] Henderson traces Griffith's Confederate background; describes his early years on the stage as an actor and aspiring playwright; and then details his film career, from the first directorial assignments at Biograph Films, where he made more than four hundred one- and two-reel movies in five years, to the pathetic final years on the fringes of Hollywood. Griffith's faults are observed, his genius is explored, his financial difficulties are explained, and the infant colossus that was Hollywood in the days prior to the First World War is brought vividly to life. Griffith's two masterpieces, The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance, influenced a generation, or more, of filmmakers, notably the Soviet giant Eisenstein. Between 1908 and 1915, Griffith invented the basic syntax of the motion picture. He demonstrated, or devised, the dramatic use of the close-up, the fade-out, the scenic long shot, and above all, the use of film editing. His series of feature films, in widely different styles, remain anchor points in any examination of cinema art. This eloquent biography details the full story of Griffith's achievements. It is a masterful life-and-times study of the pioneer movie director who became the seminal figure in American film."--Jacket.
505 0 $aFrom playwright to screen writer -- All the Griffiths, together -- Biograph : the beginning -- An actor prepares -- On location : perfecting the art -- California : the new horizon -- Graduation from Biograph -- The climax at Biograph : Judith of Bethulia -- Creation of a monument : The Birth of a Nation -- Masterpiece and failure : Intolerance -- The road to independence -- Independence : Griffith's own studio, Mamaroneck -- The end of independence : Orphans of the Storm -- Lockstep to oblivion : Griffith, the employee -- Postscript: Accolades and unemployment.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
530 $aAlso issued online.
600 10 $aGriffith, D. W.$q(David Wark),$d1875-1948.
600 17 $aGriffith, D. W.$q(David Wark),$d1875-1948$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00039880
600 14 $aGriffith, D. W.$q(David Wark),$d1875-1948.
650 0 $aMotion picture producers and directors$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aSilent films$xProduction and direction$zUnited States.
650 7 $aMotion picture producers and directors.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01027225
651 7 $aUnited States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204155
655 7 $aBiographies.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01919896
655 7 $aBiographies.$2lcgft
710 2 $aRouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC
776 08 $iOnline version:$aHenderson, Robert M.$tD.W. Griffith: his life and work.$dNew York, Oxford University Press, 1972$w(OCoLC)574603477
856 41 $uhttp://www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/explore/$zSearch the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum Catalogue for more film resources
029 1 $aAU@$b000000748530
029 1 $aAU@$b000008085558
029 1 $aAU@$b000012527764
029 1 $aAU@$b000023880919
029 1 $aAU@$b000040256847
029 1 $aAU@$b000054028106
029 1 $aAU@$b000057406768
029 1 $aCHBIS$b003003319
029 1 $aCHVBK$b148727123
029 1 $aGBVCP$b192450476
029 1 $aHEBIS$b082310297
029 1 $aNZ1$b2829255
029 1 $aNZ1$b33483
029 1 $aUNITY$b023570636
029 1 $aNLC$b000001290927
994 $aZ0$bP4A
948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN P4A - 1070 OTHER HOLDINGS