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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... Clansman (1905), and other novels. As one of the greatest of nonfictional Southern writers, W.J. Cash, has pointed out, the Civil War may have temporarily destroyed the South, but it left intact the Southern mind and will. Introduction.
... Clansman boasted comparable sales. 8 The more one reads the works of Thomas Dixon, the more one realizes—as Dixon scholars have yet to do—that although he is no expert at plot development, he is a master at self-plagiarism. He is ...
... Clansman, “But for the Black curse, the South would be to-day the garden of the world!” (p. 282). Brian R. McGee has argued that Dixon's writings are evidence of a search for an American utopia, neither Southern nor Yankee, but one ...
... Clansman appeared from Professional Services, Inc., of Phoenix, Arizona, with a front cover depicting Robert M. Shelton, the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, against a backdrop of a flaming cross. In 1994, the Noontide ...
... Clansman Dixon actually has a group of white men fascinated by the large footprint left by a black rapist. The pervasive and sexual smell of sweat hangs heavy in the Southern air as “a great herd of negroes” invades Mrs. Gaston's home ...
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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 | |