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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... Griffith, Larry Karr, Emily Leider, Arthur Lennig, Howard Prouty, and, most of all, James Zebulon Wright, who offered open and frank comments on his distant cousin Thomas Dixon Jr. Both Arthur Lennig and James Zebulon Wright took time ...
... Griffith, Thomas Dixon was a proud son of the South, who learned of its history from his father. Griffith heard of the great Civil War battles from his parent, while Dixon was told by his father and his uncle, Colonel Leroy McAfee, how ...
... Griffith. Raymond Allen Cook wrote the only published biography of Thomas Dixon, Fire from the Flint. Its subtitle, The Amazing Careers of Thomas Dixon, properly acknowledges that the subject was not only a prolific and controversial ...
... Griffith and Dixon used the screen as much to propagandize as did Leni Riefenstahl in the 1930s with Triumph of the Will and its glorification of the Nazi Party.5 Thomas Dixon was as intense in his vindication of the South and its ...
... provided Americans with as much satisfying reading matter as John Grisham does a century later. Neither Dixon nor D.W. Griffith is a racist in the modern sense of the word, and they 12 should not be branded as such. They are idealists in.
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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 | |