[eBook Code] A Companion to D. W. Griffith (eBook Code, 1st)

Contributors viii

Preface ix
Paolo Cherchi Usai

Introduction 1

Charlie Keil

Part One Griffith Redux

1 Disciplinary Descent: Film Studies, Families, and the Origins of Narrative Cinema 17
Jennifer M. Bean

2 Griffith’s Moral Profile 34
Ben Singer

3 “The Beauty of Moving Wind in the Trees”: Cinematic Presence and the Films of D.W. Griffith 74
Daniel Fairfax

Part Two Style in the Biograph Era

4 D.W. Griffith and the Emergence of Crosscutting 107
André Gaudreault and Philippe Gauthier

5 D.W. Griffith and the Primal Scene 137
Tom Gunning

6 Griffith’s Biograph Shorts: Electric Power and Film Style, from East to West 150
Charles O’Brien

Part Three Imagery and Intermediality

7 Deep Theatrical Roots: Griffith and the Theater 175
David Mayer

8 Notes on Floral Symbolism, Allegory, and Intermediality in the Films of D.W. Griffith 191
Jan Olsson

9 Living Portraits: Signs of (the) Time in D.W. Griffith 216
Joyce E. Jesionowski

Part Four Gender and Progressivism

10 Griffith’s Body Language and Film Narration: “The Voluptuary” Versus “the Spirituelle” 245
Maggie Hennefeld

11 Cross?]Dressing in Griffith’s Biograph Films: Humor, Heroics, and Edna “Billy” Foster’s Good Bad Boys 284
Laura Horak

12 Space, Gender, Oversight, and Social Change: Progressivism and the Films of D.W. Griffith, 1909–1916 309
Moya Luckett

13 Progressive Pastoral: Social Justice Reforms and Biograph Films, 1908–1911 330
Grant Wiedenfeld

Part Five Revisiting Failed Features

14 Gendering Ministry and Reform: Griffith and the Plight of Protestant Uplift 361
Anne Morey

15 “Squalid Without Being Tragic”: Griffith’s “Isn’t Life Wonderful” 385
Russell Merritt

16 Faust at Famous Players 423
Andrew Nelson

17 Griffith in a Minor Key: Early Art Cinema Looking Backward 440
Kaveh Askari

Part Six Reception at Home and Abroad

18 “Damage Unwittingly Done”: D.W. Griffith and the Re?]Birth of the Ku Klux Klan 463
Tom Rice

19 “History by Lightning”: D.W. Griffith in South Africa 486
Nicole Devarenne

20 Blossoms Breaking at the Dawn of Cinephilia: The Reception of D.W. Griffith in France 510
Annie Fee

21 The legacy of Intolerance 533
Paul McEwan

Index