American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas DixonUniversity Press of Kentucky, 10 сент. 2004 г. - Всего страниц: 264 " Thomas Dixon has a notorious reputation as the writer of the source material for D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking and controversial 1915 feature film The Birth of a Nation. Perhaps unfairly, Dixon has been branded an arch-conservative and a racist obsessed with what he viewed as "the Negro problem." As American Racist makes clear, however, Dixon was a complex, multitalented individual who, as well as writing some of the most popular novels of the early twentieth century, was involved in the production of some eighteen films. Dixon used the motion picture as a propaganda tool for his often outrageous opinions on race, communism, socialism, and feminism. His most spectacular production, The Fall of a Nation (1916), argues for American preparedness in the face of war and boasts a musical score by Victor Herbert, making it the first American feature film to have an original score by a major composer. Like the majority of Dixon's films, The Fall of a Nation has been lost, but had it survived, it might well have taken its place alongside The Birth of a Nation as a masterwork of silent film. Anthony Slide examines each of Dixon's films and discusses the novels from which they were adapted. Slide chronicles Dixon's transformation from a major supporter of the original Ku Klux Klan in his early novels to an ardent critic of the modern Klan in his last film, Nation Aflame. American Racist is the first book to discuss Dixon's work outside of literature and provide a wide overview of the life and career of this highly controversial twentieth-century southern populist. Anthony Slide is the author of numerous books, including Silent Players: A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses. |
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... Cameron of South Carolina and helps her locate her wounded son, Colonel Ben Cameron, who is under sentence of death for violating the rules of war as a guerilla raider in the invasion of Pennsylvania. Because she is the daughter of ...
... Cameron: “On the surface, easy friendly ways and the tenderness of a woman—beneath, an iron will and lion heart. I like him. And what always amazes me is his universality. A Southerner finds him in the South, the Western man in the West ...
... Cameron, is arrested and charged with complicity in Lincoln's murder. (Dr. Cameron is supposedly based on Dr. J. Rufus Bratton of York, South Carolina, who was chief surgeon at two Confederate hospitals and active in the local Klan ...
... Cameron, and son Phil, who is in love with Margaret Cameron. The family takes up residence at the home of Marion Lenoir and her mother. After an encounter with a Negro trooper and former family slave named Gus, Ben Cameron is arrested ...
... Cameron kissed her (after she had rescued her horse from a burning stable). The mother obviously has some misgivings, but, urged on by her daughter, she walks to the cliff above the river, earlier described as Lover's Leap. “Then, hand ...
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Southern History on Film | |
The Fall of a Nation | |
The Foolish Virgin and the New Woman | |
The Red Scare | |
Miscegenation | |
Journeyman Filmmaker | |
Nation Aflame | |
The Final Years | |
Raymond Rohauer and the Dixon Legacy | |
Filmography | |
Notes | |