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The most comprehensive volume on one of the most controversial directors in American film history A Companion to D.W. Griffith offers an exhaustive look at the first acknowledged auteur of the cinema and provides an authoritative account of the director’s life, work, and lasting filmic legacy. The text explores how Griffith’s style and status advanced along with cinema’s own development during the years when narrative became the dominant mode, when the short gave way to the feature, and when film became the pre-eminent form of mass entertainment. Griffith was at the centre of each of these changes: though a contested figure, he remains vital to any understanding of how cinema moved fro...
It's Friday after school and the science lab is empty -- or so everyone thinks. Miss B., the eccentric science teacher, is secretly using the lab to conduct her questionable experiments. David is counting on meeting up with his new lady love, Ukranian student Anichka, without getting caught by his girlfriend, Rebecca. Meanwhile, two loveable nerds plot to increase their social standing by developing a new smartphone app with potentially dangerous (but comical) ramifications. When the school principal brings in the cops to expel Miss B., stories collide to hilarious effect in this fast-paced and witty farce.
Containing more than 48000 titles, of which approximately 4000 have a 2001 imprint, the author and title index is extensively cross-referenced. It offers a complete directory of Canadian publishers available, listing the names and ISBN prefixes, as well as the street, e-mail and web addresses.