Introduction. D.W. Griffith's American Dream -- Ch. 1. THE EARLIEST DAYS -- The story picture is born / Terry Ramsaye -- Going into the film business / Fred Balshofer and Arthur Miller -- Shakespeare by Vitagraph (1908-1911) / Robert Hamilton Ball -- Hollywood's predecessor: Fort Lee, N.J. / Theodore Huff -- Alice Guy Blaché / Anthony Slide -- Allan Dwan / Kevin Brownlow -- Ch. 2. INCE AND HART -- The discovery of California / Terry Ramsaye -- Thomas H. Ince / Steven Higgins -- Tom Ince of Inceville / W.E. Wing -- The Italian / William K. Everson -- C. Gardner Sullivan / Diane Koszarski -- The concreteness of Ince's films / Jean Mitry -- Working for Ince / William S. Hart -- The Bargain / Moving Picture World, excerpts from Dec. 19, 1914 and Dec. 5, 1915] -- A man named Sioux / Bruce Firestone -- The challenge for the motion picture producer / Thomas H. Ince -- Ch. 3. GRIFFITH -- My first real battles with life / D.W. Griffith -- The father of film technique / Arthur Knight -- The great D.W. / Karl Brown -- Weaving a narrative / Tom Gunning -- Deliberation and repose / Frank Woods -- Griffith leaves Biography / Lewis Jacobs -- Planning The Birth of a Nation / Lillian Gish -- The Birth of a Nation / Arthur Knight -- The proof of the pudding / Karl Brown -- Brotherly love / Francis Hackett -- A propaganda film / Rolfe Cobleigh -- The year of The Birth of a Nation / Thomas Cripps -- Intolerance / Joseph Henabery -- Intolerance / Russell Merritt -- Dickens, Griffith, and the film today / Sergei Eisenstein -- Griffith and the expressiveness of editing / Alan Casty -- Infinite shadings of human emotion / Blake Lucas -- An unconventional masterpiece / Arthur Lennig -- Way Down East : finances and responses / Richard Schickel -- An open letter to D.W. Griffith / James R. Quick -- Lady of the pavements / Blake Lucas -- Isn't life wonderful / Eileen Bowser -- Ch. 4. STROHEIM -- The steamy side of directing / Erich von Stroheim -- Stoheim's pictorial art / Herman G. Weinberg -- Vintage swine / S.J. Perelman -- Naturalism : from McTeague to Greed / A.R. Fulton -- Reassessment : Stroheim as stylist and myth maker / Joel W. Finler -- The Wedding March / Arthur Lennig -- Stroheim : he didn't really belong to America / Gavin Lambert -- APPENDICES -- A. Writing in silence / Richard Corliss -- B. Extant films of Thomas H. Ince -- C.D.W. Griffith's feature films -- D. Erich von Stroheim's feature films -- E. Twenty notable directors -- F. Bibliography.
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