SOURCE: "'The Female of the Species': D. W. Griffith, Father of the Woman's Film," in Film Quarterly, Vol. XLVI, No. 2, Winter, 1992-93, pp. 8-20.
In the following essay, Simmon maintains that Griffith was the progenitor of the "woman's film" and probes the director's use of females in such movies as A Flash of Light and The Painted Lady.
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