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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... Film Study Center of New York University (Ann Harris and Antonia Lant); the staff of the Doheny Memorial Library of the University of Southern California; Fred G. Turner at the Olivia Raney Local History Library of the Acknowledgments.
... York probably alerted the majority of Americans for the first time to the reality that many Northerners were not sympathetic to the Civil War as a vehicle for the freeing of slaves. If Dixon had produced the film, it would have depicted ...
... 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 affection was that of a master toward a well-behaved household pet. The similarity between a dog ...
... 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 School of Drama in New York, and enjoyed his first professional ...
... York theatrical community proved abortive, and in April 1884, he returned to family life in Shelby, North Carolina. Never lacking enthusiasm, Dixon entered politics and on his twenty-first birthday was elected to the state legislature ...
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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 | |