THE GRIFFITH PROJECT Paolo Cherchi Usai, General Editor Volume 12:
Essays on D.W. Griffith Edited by Paolo Cherchi Usai and Cynthia
Rowell With contributions by William M. Drew, Helmut Farber, Andre
Gaudreault, Philippe Gauthier, Lea Jacobs, Joyce Jesionowski,
Charlie Keil, Richard Koszarski, Arthur Lennig, Pat Loughney, David
Mayer, Russell Merritt, Jan Olsson, Paul Spehr, Yuri Tsivian, Linda
Williams In early 1996, an international group of 35 specialists in
silent cinema volunteered to write commentaries on more than six
hundred films directed, written, produced and supervised by D.W.
Griffith - or featuring him as a performer - for the eleven-volume
series The Griffith Project, the largest monograph ever assembled
on an individual film director, in conjunction with the massive
retrospective held at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival from 1996
to 2008. All authors involved in The Griffith Project were bound to
strict editorial rules, most notably the fact that all titles in
the series would be assigned to them in pre-determined groups
rather than as a result of their own individual preference for this
or that specific entry. The patience and commitment demonstrated by
all scholars in this endeavor requires at least a symbolic
recognition. We therefore invited the members of the project team
to write an essay on a (D.W. Griffith-related) topic of their own
choice. The papers included in this volume constitute the response
to our carte blanche invitation. Our offer was also extended to
other experts on D.W. Griffith who, for various reasons, were
unable to participate in The Griffith Project but consistently
supported it with their generous advice and insight. This volume
brings The Griffith Project to completion, as 2008 sees the last
installment of the D.W. Griffith program at the Pordenone Silent
Film Festival with the screening of his films produced between 1925
and 1931. Not surprisingly, twelve years of research on D.W.
Griffith have unearthed an impressive wealth of knowledge but also
an equally amazing array of new questions, certainly enough of them
to fill several more volumes. Some of them (including the
increasingly complex issue of D.W. Griffith's role as production
supervisor) are only introduced or barely mentioned here, but we
are confident that what we have called the 'Griffith Project' will
continue - at the Giornate and elsewhere - with more research and
newly found or preserved prints. PAOLO CHERCHI USAI is Director of
the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. He is co-founder
of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival and of the L. Jeffrey
Selznick School of Film Preservation at George Eastman House
(Rochester, New York). He directed the experimental feature film
Passio (2007). His latest book is David Wark Griffith (Editrice Il
Castoro, 2008).
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