D.W. Griffith's 100th anniversary The birth of a nation
Subtitle: a history of "the most controversial motion picture of all time"
By: by Seymour Stern ; edited by Ira H. Gallen
Contributors: Gallen, Ira H., editor
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: FriesenPress; Distributed by Ingram Book Company
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Victoria, BC, Canada; [La Vergne, TN]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 660
ISBN-13: 9781460236536; 9781460236543; 9781460236550
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Birth of a nation (Motion picture)
Other titles: Birth of a nation
Description: A 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.