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Reference Literature on David Wark Griffith

  • Quarterly Review of Film Studies 6:1 (1981): Essays on D.W.Griffith
  • Richard Schickel: D.W.Griffith. An American Life. New York 1984
  • Joyce E.Jesionowski: Thinking in Pictures. Dramatic Structure in D.W.Griffith´s Biograph Films. Berkeley, Los Angeles 1987
  • Charlie Keil: "Transition through Tension: Stylistic Diversity in the Late Griffith Biographs." In: Cinema Journal 28:3 (1989), pp.22-40
  • Thomas Elsaesser (Ed.): Early Cinema. Space-Frame-Narrative. London 1990 (on Griffith esp. Chapter III: "The Continuity System. Griffith and Beyond.") - (essays/books by Th.Elsaesser)
  • Gregory W.Bush: "Like a Drop of Water in the Stream of Life. Moving Images of Mass Man from Griffith to Vidor." In: Journal of American Studies 25:2 (Aug 1991)
  • Tom Gunning: D.W.Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film. The Early Years at Biograph. Urbana & Chicago 1991 - (essays/books by T.Gunning)
  • Roberta E.Pearson: Eloquent Gestures. The Transformation of Performance Style in the Griffith Biograph Films. Berkeley, Los Angeles 1992
  • Scott Simmon: The Films of D.W.Griffith. Cambridge 1993
  • Michael Allen: Family Secrets. The Feature Films of D.W.Griffith. London: bfi, 1999
  • Diane Smith / Robert Singer: "A Drunkard's Representation: The Appropriation of Naturalism in D.W. Griffith's Biograph Films." In: Griffithiana No.65 (1999), pp.97-125
  • Paolo Cherchi Usai (Ed.): The Griffith Project. London 1999-2006 (10 Vols.)
  • Gregory S.Jay: "»White Man´s Book No Good«: D.W.Griffith and the American Indian." In: Cinema Journal 39:4 (2000), pp.3-26
  • Paula Marantz Cohen: "Griffith, Gish, and the Narrative of the Face." In: P.M.: Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth, Oxford 2001, pp.107-130
  • Alison Griffiths: "Playing at Being Indian: Spectatorship and the Early Western." In: Journal of Popular Film & TV 29:3 (2001), pp.100-111
  • Richard Koszarski: "»So Long, Master…«: Stroheim, Griffith and the Griffith Studio." In: Griffithiana No.71 (2001), pp.45-82 (it./engl.)
  • Jean Mottet: "Toward a Genealogy of the American Landscape: Notes on Landscapes in D.W.Griffith (1908-1912)." In: M.Lefebvre (Ed.): Landscape and Film, London & New York: Routledge, 2006, pp.61-90
  • Todd McGowan: "D.W.Griffith’s Suspense." In: T.M.: The Real Gaze. Film Theory after Lacan. Albany: SUNY Press, 2007
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