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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... Negro schoolteacher in Thomas Dixon's The Man in Gray (1921) quod sempter, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus What always, What everywhere, What by all has been held to be true motto of the Ku Klux Klan Get your facts first, and then you can ...
... Negro is ever to be worked into a system of government for which you and I would have much respect.” Aside from his vast contributions by way of the written and spoken word, Thomas Dixon was also a filmmaker, responsible in some way or ...
... Negro, in The Littlest Rebel and The Little Colonel (both 1935), where another child star, Bobby Breen, sings to happy Negro plantation slaves in Way Down South (1939), where Bing Crosby croons in Mississippi (1935), where Mary Brian ...
... Negro roles played by Caucasian actors in blackface, The Birth of a Nation is no aberration, as some historians might suggest. Blackface was a part of American entertainment as far back as the minstrel shows of the 1840s; and white ...
... Negro, and while this may seem derogatory from a modern viewpoint, it should be noted that the New York Times also referred to the “negro” as late as the 1920s.) Yes, as his supporters have argued, Thomas Dixon loved the Negro, but his ...
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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 | |