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Biograph bulletins, 1908-1912.
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ISBN: 0374113211 9780374113216 Year: 1973 Publisher: New York Octagon Books

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D.W. Griffith : his Biograph films in perspective
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ISBN: 0913986062 9780913986066 Year: 1974 Publisher: Los Angeles Niver

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A victorian film enterprise : The history of the british mutoscope and biograph company, 1897-1915
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ISBN: 0948911271 Year: 1999 Publisher: Highworth (Wiltshire) : Flicks books,

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D.W. Griffith and the origins of American narrative film: the early years at biograph
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ISBN: 0252017544 Year: 1991 Publisher: Urbana University of Illinois Press

Eloquent gestures : the transformation of performance style in the Griffith biograph films.
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ISBN: 0520073665 0520073657 9780520073661 Year: 1992 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press

D. W. Griffith and the origins of American narrative film : the early years at Biograph
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ISBN: 9780252063664 025206366X Year: 1994 Publisher: Urbana (Ill.) : University of Illinois press,

Eloquent Gestures : The Transformation of Performance Style in the Griffith Biograph Films
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ISBN: 0585299404 0520911040 9780520911048 9780585299402 0520073657 9780520073654 0520073665 9780520073661 Year: 1992 Publisher: Berkeley, California : University of California Press,

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Between 1908 and 1913, D. W. Griffith played a key role in the reformulating of film's narrative techniques, thus contributing to the creation of what we now think of as the classical Hollywood cinema. This book is the only extensive treatment of a critical period in the history of film acting: the emergence of the realistic "verisimilar" style in Griffith's biograph films. Roberta Pearson shows how Griffith gradually abandoned the deliberately affected "histrionic" acting style derived from the nineteenth-century stage. No longer did actors mime distress by raising their arms to heaven or clutching their heads--a subtle facial expression, a slight change in posture would convey a character's extreme emotions instead. Pearson makes detailed comparisons of certain Biograph films and brings a freshness to her analysis by closely examining contemporary journalistic writing, acting manuals, and the recollections of actors of the time. Her work is important for anyone interested in early cinema and performance, and it will enliven the study of American cultural history and mass communications.

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