Introduction / Charlie Keil -- Griffith Redux. Disciplinary Descent / Jennifer M Bean -- Griffith's Moral Profile / Ben Singer -- "The Beauty of Moving Wind in the Trees" / Daniel Fairfax -- Style in the Biograph Era. D.W. Griffith and the Emergence of Crosscutting / André Gaudreault, Philippe Gauthier -- D.W. Griffith and the Primal Scene / Tom Gunning -- Griffith's Biograph Shorts / Charles O'Brien -- Imagery and Intermediality. Deep Theatrical Roots / David Mayer -- Notes on Floral Symbolism, Allegory, and Intermediality in the Films of D.W. Griffith / Jan Olsson -- Living Portraits / Joyce E Jesionowski -- Gender and Progressivism. Griffith's Body Language and Film Narration / Maggie Hennefeld -- Cross-Dressing in Griffith's Biograph Films / Laura Horak -- Space, Gender, Oversight, and Social Change / Moya Luckett -- Progressive Pastoral / Grant Wiedenfeld -- Revisiting Failed Features. Gendering Ministry and Reform / Anne Morey -- "Squalid Without Being Tragic" / Russell Merritt -- Faust at Famous Players / Andrew Patrick Nelson -- Griffith in a Minor Key / Kaveh Askari -- Reception at Home and Abroad. "Damage Unwittingly Done" / Tom Rice -- "History by Lightning" / Nicole Devarenne -- Blossoms Breaking at the Dawn of Cinephilia / Annie Fee -- The Legacy of Intolerance / Paul McEwan.