Thinking in Pictures: Dramatic Structure in D. W. Griffith's Biograph Films

Thinking in Pictures: Dramatic Structure in D. W. Griffith's Biograph Films by Joyce E. Jesionowski offers a rigorous reconsideration of Griffith's reputation as both pioneer and mythmaker in early cinema. While Griffith has often been credited—sometimes uncritically—with "inventing" film technique, Jesionowski situates his Biograph work within a broader international context in which many cinematic devices, from fades and dissolves to intercutting and camera movement, were already in pract...