Film out of theatre: D.W. Griffith, Birth of a Nation and the melodrama The Clansman.
Compares D.W. Griffith's film adaptation `The Birth of a Nation' and Thomas Dixon's novel `The Clansman' from which the film was adapted. Focus on the degree to which Griffith used or discarded material drawn from the book; Similarity in both subject matter and dramatic structure; Centrality of Dixo...
| Publicado en: | Literature Film Quarterly Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 87 - 96 |
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Salisbury University
1990
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| Sumario: | Compares D.W. Griffith's film adaptation `The Birth of a Nation' and Thomas Dixon's novel `The Clansman' from which the film was adapted. Focus on the degree to which Griffith used or discarded material drawn from the book; Similarity in both subject matter and dramatic structure; Centrality of Dixon's play to Griffith's adaptation. |
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