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791.44.071.1 --- Motion pictures --- -#SBIB:309H1323 --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Filmregisseurs. Cineasten. Filmproducers --- History --- Films met een amusementsfunctie en/of esthetische functie: auteurs --- History and criticism --- Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) --- -Criticism and interpretation --- Biograph Company --- AB --- American Mutoscope and Biograph Company --- Protective Amusement Company --- Klaw & Erlanger --- Biograph Company. --- 791.44.071.1 Filmregisseurs. Cineasten. Filmproducers --- #SBIB:309H1323 --- Griffith, D. W. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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For over a century, cinephiles and film scholars have had to grapple with an ugly artifact that sits at the beginnings of film history. D. W. Griffith’s profoundly racist epic, The Birth of a Nation, inspired controversy and protest at its 1915 release and was defended as both a true history of Reconstruction (although it was based on fiction) and a new achievement in cinematic art. Paul McEwan examines the long and shifting history of its reception, revealing how the film became not just a cinematic landmark but also an influential force in American aesthetics and intellectual life. In every decade since 1915, filmmakers, museums, academics, programmers, and film fans have had to figure out how to deal with this troublesome object, and their choices have profoundly influenced both film culture and the notion that films can be works of art. Some critics tried to set aside the film’s racism and concentrate on the form, while others tried to relegate that racism safely to the past. McEwan argues that from the earliest film retrospectives in the 1920s to the rise of remix culture in the present day, controversies about this film and its meaning have profoundly shaped our understandings of film, race, and art.

Film criticism --- Racism in motion pictures --- Racism in the social sciences --- History. --- Griffith, D. W. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Birth of a nation (Motion picture : 1915) --- Influence. --- The Birth of a Nation, racism, racist stereotypes, American Civil War, film studies, film history, American film history, race in America, D.W. Griffith.

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Between 1908 and 1913, D. W. Griffith played a key role in the reformulating of film's narrative techniques, thus contributing to the creation of what we now think of as the classical Hollywood cinema. This book is the only extensive treatment of a critical period in the history of film acting: the emergence of the realistic "verisimilar" style in Griffith's biograph films. Roberta Pearson shows how Griffith gradually abandoned the deliberately affected "histrionic" acting style derived from the nineteenth-century stage. No longer did actors mime distress by raising their arms to heaven or clutching their heads--a subtle facial expression, a slight change in posture would convey a character's extreme emotions instead. Pearson makes detailed comparisons of certain Biograph films and brings a freshness to her analysis by closely examining contemporary journalistic writing, acting manuals, and the recollections of actors of the time. Her work is important for anyone interested in early cinema and performance, and it will enliven the study of American cultural history and mass communications.

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