The Griffith Project, Volume 6: Films Produced in 1912

by Paolo Cherchi Usai

Overview

1912 is the first 'golden year' in the career of D.W. Griffith. There is still a wealth of treasures waiting to be uncovered in this year. Their reappraisal is one of the aims of this sixth installment in the multi-year research project commissioned by the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in Sacile.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781839020131
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	07/25/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Paolo Cherchi Usai is senior curator of the Motion Picture department at George Eastman House in Rochester, USA and Professor of Film at the University of Rochester, USA. He is co-founder of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Director of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation and an adjunct member of the National Film Preservation Board at the Library of Congress. He is the author of Silent Cinema: An Introduction (BFI, 2000) and The Death of Cinema (BFI, 2001).
Paolo Cherchi Usai is Senior Curator of the Motion Picture Department and director of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, USA, and founder of the annual Pordenone Silent Film Festival. Cherchi Usai's publications include The Griffith Project, co-published by the British Film Institute and Le Giornate, in 12 volumes (1996-2012); The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory, and the Digital Dark Age (2001); and Burning Passions: An Introduction to the Study of Silent Cinema (1994).