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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... frank comments on his distant cousin Thomas Dixon Jr. Both Arthur Lennig and James Zebulon Wright took time out of their busy schedules to read the manuscript, and I am grateful for their comments and corrections. When I mentioned to ...
... Frank Yerby brought his Southern (and unfortunately somewhat dull) vision of the South to the screen in The Foxes of Harrow, and it was a Frenchman, Jean Renoir, who directed Hollywood's first major and feature-length look at what Dixon ...
... frank and, to him, honest fashion, his novels were often condemned by contemporary critics; one wrote, “His realism is the realism of the open sore; his art the art of the Such a comment is both an assault on and an affirmation of ...
... Frank. (There were also two sisters, Delia and Addie May.) The Dixon children were exceptionally intelligent, charismatic individuals and would often correspond with each other in Latin or Greek; they were all the subjects of entries in ...
... frank, it is.” (p. 395) Lowell throws Harris from his home, arguing that social rights and political rights are not interwoven: I happen to know the important fact that a man or woman of negro ancestry, though a century removed, will ...
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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 | |