Stagestruck Filmmaker: D. W. Griffith & the American Theatre

by David Mayer

An actor, a vaudevillian, and a dramatist before he became a filmmaker, D. W. Griffith used the resources of theatre to great purpose and to great ends. In pioneering the quintessentially modern medium of film from the 1890s to the 1930s, he drew from older, more broadly appealing stage forms of melodrama, comedy, vaudeville, and variety. In Stagestruck Filmmaker, David Mayer brings Griffith's process vividly to life, offering detailed and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587297906
• ISBN13: 9781587297908
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 10.6"