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001 2014432248
003 DLC
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008 141108s2014 vraa b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014432248
020 $a9781460236536 (Hardcover)
020 $a9781460236543 (pbk.)
020 $z9781460236550 (eBook)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPN1997.B55$bS84 2014
100 1 $aStern, Seymour,$eauthor.
245 10 $aD.W. Griffith's 100th anniversary The birth of a nation :$ba history of "the most controversial motion picture of all time" /$cby Seymour Stern ; edited by Ira H. Gallen.
246 30 $aBirth of a nation
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aVictoria, BC, Canada :$bFriesenPress :$a[La Vergne, TN] :$bDistributed by Ingram Book Company,$c[2014]
264 4 $c©2014
300 $a660 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $aA hundred years have passed since the masterpiece of David Wark Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, first appeared on the screens of America, in the winter of 1915. It demonstrated that the cinema, no less than literature and no less than the stage, could become a topic of serious critical, esthetic, intellectual, political, social, and technical discussion. In this way it brought the motion picture into a position of commanding influence in the social life of the American nation. The denunciation continues, and the storm over the film serves as a barometer of the global conflict, involving forces and issues set in motion by, but no means limited to, race. As Griffith's official biographer, Seymour Stern's main purpose of his book was to assemble, as extensively as possible, the rapidly vanishing record of what happened.
600 10 $aGriffith, D. W.$q(David Wark),$d1875-1948$xCriticism and interpretation.
630 00 $aBirth of a nation (Motion picture)
700 1 $aGallen, Ira H.,$eeditor.