num_pages: 328
description: "The definitive work on Griffith's early career... Will solidify the way in which film scholars, critics, and teachers conceive of not only Griffith's crucial contributions to film history but all early filmmaking in the U.S."- David Dresser"An all-encompassing vision of D.W. Griffith's early work. Gunning's study is full of new information and places the Biographs in a lucid historical-critical context that will serve any future scholar who ventures into the realm of early cinema."- Joyce E. Jesionowski
language: English
title: D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film: The Early Years at Biograph
titlecomplete: D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film: The Early Years at Biograph
characters: D.W. Griffith
genres: History, Art History, Academic, Film, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 29
publisher: University of Illinois Press