The Griffith Project: v. 8: Films Produced in 1914

No other silent film director has been as extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than five hundred films has been the subject of a systematic analysis, and the vast majority of his other works still await proper examination. For the first time in film studies, the complete creative output of Griffith--from Professional Jealousy (1907) to The Struggle (1931) --will be explored in this multivolume collection of contributions from an international team of leading scholars in the field. Created as a companion to the ongoing retrospective held by the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, the Griffith Project is an indispensable guide to the work of a crucial figure in the arts of the nineteenth century. The latest volume assesses Griffith's work in 1914-15. It includes an extensive, multi-authored evaluation of The Birth of a Nation.

Paolo Cherchi Usai, Senior Curator of the Motion Picutre Department at George Eastman House, is director of the L.Jeffrey Salznick School of Film Preservation and associate professor to film at the University of Rochester. He is co-organizer of the Pordenone Silent film Festival and author of Silent Cimema: An Introduction (2000) and The Death of Cinema (2001) both published by BFI Publishing.