Tom Gunning is a member of the department of film at the
State University of New York at Purchase.
Winner of the Theatre Library Association Award, 1991.
"The definitive work on Griffith's early career. . . . Will
solidify the way in which film scholars, critics, and teachers
conceive of not only Griffith's crucial contributions to film
history but all early filmmaking in the U.S."--David Desser,
coauthor of American Jewish Filmmakers: Traditions and Trends
"An all-encompassing vision of D.W. Griffith's early work.
Gunning's study is full of new information and places the Biographs
in a lucid historical-critical context that will serve any future
scholar who ventures into the realm of early cinema."--Joyce E.
Jesionowski, author of Thinking in Pictures: Narrative Structure in
D. W. Griffith's Biograph Films
"A must purchase for motion picture buffs and historians."--Morse
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