Screenshots from D.W. Griffith鈥檚  探花直播Lonely Villa (1909)

Grand designs: the role of the house in American film

27 May 2016

It鈥檚 black and white, silent and just short of ten minutes in length. But D.W. Griffith鈥檚 1909 classic 探花直播Lonely Villa inspired Dr John David Rhodes, Director of Cambridge鈥檚 new Centre for Film and Screen, to look at the role and meaning of the house in American cinema.

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