A Companion to D. W. Griffith

Preface Paolo Cherchi Usai Introduction Charlie Keil I. GRIFFITH REDUX 1. Disciplinary Descent: Film Studies, Families, and the Origins of Narrative Cinema Jennifer M. Bean 2. Griffith's Moral Profile Ben Singer 3. "The Beauty of Moving Wind in the Trees": Cinematic Presence and the Films of D.W. Griffith - Daniel Fairfax II. STYLE IN THE BIOGRAPH ERA 4. D.W. Griffith and the Emergence of Crosscutting André Gaudreault and Philippe Gauthier 5. D.W. Griffith and the Primal Scene Tom Gunning 6. Griffith's Biograph Shorts: Electric Power and Film Style, from East to West Charles O'Brien III. IMAGERY & INTERMEDIALITY 7. Deep Theatrical Roots: Griffith and the Theatre David Mayer 8. Notes on Floral Symbolism, Allegory, and Intermediality in the Films of D.W. Griffith Jan Olsson 9. Living Portraits: Signs of (the) Time in D.W. Griffith Joyce E. Jesionowski IV. GENDER & PROGRESSIVISM 10. Griffith's Body Language and Film Narration: "The Voluptuary" Versus "The Spirituelle" Maggie Hennefeld 11. Cross-Dressing in Griffith's Biograph Films: Humor, Heroics, and Edna "Billy" Foster's Good Bad Boys Laura Horak 12. Space, Gender, Oversight, and Social Change: Progressivism and the Films of D.W. Griffith, 1909-1916 Moya Luckett 13. Progressive Pastoral: Social Justice Reforms and Biograph Films, 1908-1911 Grant Wiedenfeld V. REVISITING FAILED FEATURES 14. Gendering Ministry and Reform: Griffith and the Plight of Protestant Uplift Anne Morey 15. "Squalid Without Being Tragic": Griffith's "Isn't Life Wonderful" Russell Merritt 16. Faust at Famous Players Andrew Nelson 17. Griffith in a Minor Key: Early Art Cinema Looking Backward Kaveh Askari VI. RECEPTION AT HOME AND ABROAD 18. "Damage Unwittingly Done": D.W. Griffith and the Re-Birth of the Ku Klux Klan Tom Rice 19. "History by Lightning": D.W. Griffith in South Africa Nicole Devarenne 20. Blossoms Breaking at the Dawn of Cinephilia: The Reception of D.W. Griffith in France Annie Fee 21. The Legacy of Intolerance Paul McEwan