Suggestions for Further Reading
Bogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes,
Mammies, & Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American
Films. 3rd ed. New York: Continuum
Publishing, 2000.
Cook, David A. A History of Narrative
Film. 4th ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004.
Cripps, Thomas. Slow Fade to Black: The
Negro in American Film, 1900–1942.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Dirks, Tim. Review of
The Birth of a
Nation. Available online
http://www.filmsite.org/birt.html.
Downloaded August
2004.
Gish, Lillian, and Ann Pinchot. Lillian
Gish: The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me. Englewood Cliffs,
New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1969.
Gunning, Tom. D. W. Griffith and the
Origins of American Narrative Film: The Early Years at Biograph.
Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Lang, Robert, ed. The Birth of a Nation: D.
W. Griffith, Director. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers
University Press, 1994.
Panzer, Mary. Mathew Brady and the Image
of History. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press
for the National Portrait Gallery, 1997.
Schickel, Richard. D. W. Griffith: An
American Life. New York: Limelight Editions, 1996.
Simmon, Scott. The Films of D. W. Griffith.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.