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. |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 1 – 5 из 36
... January 22, 1923, Dixon appeared at the Century Theatre, Detroit, praising the Reconstruction Klan as “the bravest and noblest men of the South” but denouncing the modern Klan as “unprincipled marauders.” 5 In February 1923, Dixon was ...
... January 1869 on orders of its Grand Wizard, Nathan B. Forrest. Dixon viewed the Klan, as originally constituted, as an organization that might hold some political sway against the forces of radical Reconstuctionism. The Klan was on a ...
... January 11, 1864, just as the Civil War was winding down to its tragic conclusion; the bitterness of Reconstruction was but a year away. His mother's parents had been prominent slaveholders in South Carolina, while his father had “freed ...
... January 1882, featured an essay by Professor William Royall titled “African Slavery in America—Its Good Results—Why These Should Be Noted,” described by James Zebulon Wright as “the sort of writing one saw later in Dixon's own work.” 10 ...
... January 15, 1899, he announced his resignation as pastor of the People's Church. As he later explained to the New York Herald (April 30, 1906), it was “for reasons of conscience” not only that he chose to resign but also that he ...
Содержание
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 | |