1912 E4 - Marsha Gordon

Marsha Gordon, Professor of Film Studies at North Carolina State University, mostly highlights two directors credited with advancing film narrative with four picks. But she also sings the praises of a certain work of stop-motion animation, one taking this season by storm for both guests’ and listeners’ submissions.Marsha is the author of Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott, Film, Form & Culture (with Robert Kolker), and Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller’s War Films. She is currently writing a biography of the pioneering Hollywood director Dorothy Arzner.Films mentioned:Falling Leaves (1912) - Alice Guy-BlachéMaking an American Citizen (1912) - Alice Guy-BlachéThe Girl and Her Trust (1912) - D.W. GriffithThe Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) - D.W. GriffithThe Cameraman’s Revenge (1912) - Wladyslaw StarewiczThe Divorcee (1930) - Robert Z. LeonardNext Time We Love (1936) - Edward H. GriffithThe Immigrant (1917) - Charlie ChaplinThe Brutalist (2024) - Brady CorbetThe Consequences of Feminism (1906) - Alice Guy-BlachéThe Lonedale Operator (1911) - D.W. GriffithThe Birth of a Nation (1915) - D.W. GriffithI Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) - Mervyn LeRoyThe Great Train Robbery (1903) - Edwin S. PorterGangs of New York (2002) - Martin ScorseseRegeneration (1915) - Raoul WalshPrincess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909) - J. Stuart Blackton