Stagestruck Filmmaker: D.W.Griffith and the American Theatre (Studies in Theatre History & Culture) (Studies in Theatre History and Culture)

by David Mayer (Author), ThomasPostlewait (Series Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $34.09

  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. This title brings Griffith's process, offering insights into the racial, ethnic, class, and gender issues of these transitional decades.