The publication of this material provides a film study resource for students and teachers
which is unavailable elsewhere. Vlada Petrić’s reading of “A Corner in Wheat” is a work which is comprehensive and rigorous in its hermeneutic approach. This essay represents a critical analysis of the cinematic structure of this film and the cinematic techniques utilized by D. W. Griffith, with Petrić also providing a detailed shot-by-shot and textual analysis of Griffith’s composition within the framework of the filmic action and the course of its development, as well as laying out the structural intricacies of his editing.
