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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... (June 24, 1905), and yet the publication was hardly a surprise in that Dixon from early manhood was very much a public figure, one who had never shied away from controversy. Whatever his beliefs, no matter how inflammatory they might be ...
... (June 26, 1902) concluded, “In this novel Mr. Dixon shows himself an orator rather than a literary artist.” Another contemporary reviewer commented, “The love story and the political thesis were so poorly blended that the book may fairly ...
... (June 1, 1902) provided a backhanded complement: “He is full of hatred against the negro, who was rather the tool in the hands of designing whites than an actor on his own responsibility in the scenes complained of. Yet his book will not ...
... June 1861. It was followed by The Roll of the Drum; or, The Battle of Manassas (1861); The Scouts; or, The Plains of Manassas (1861), The Vivandiere (1863); The Virginia Cavalier (1863); and Miscegenation; or, A Virginia Negro 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 | |