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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... a lesson from his friend and mentor. If the motion picture was to Griffith the “universal language,” to Thomas Dixon it was the “university of man.” He wrote, “The class rooms, with row on row of seats in our Theatres, are.
... Theatres, are already heated and lighted and provided with ushers.” 7 It is worthy of note that whereas The Birth of a Nation remains one of the most influential films of all time, and one that routinely appears on one-hundred-best ...
... 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 challenged to a debate by the Reverend Dr. Oscar ...
... theatre and on his twentieth birthday made his first visit to New York and experienced for the first time what the city had to offer in terms of both dramatic and operatic entertainment. He left Johns Hopkins, enrolled at Frobisher's ...
... Theatre. (In The Birth of a Nation, only Elsie and Phil are present in the auditorium.) Lydia Brown and Silas Lynch urge Stoneman on with his plans for the South, including the confiscation of white land and its division among the ...
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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 | |