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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... attack by a dog, Dixon decided as a child never to hunt coons again. Abraham Lincoln as a boy in The Southerner refuses again to participate in a coon hunt after witnessing its horror, depicted by Dixon in graphic detail. In The Sins of ...
... attacked by the new Klan and its leaders. On January 22, 1923, Dixon appeared at the Century Theatre, Detroit ... attacks on his organization were unjust. 6 Dixon did not respond, but a year later, he told the New York Times that the ...
... attack local government corruption as represented by Tammany Hall and boasted the largest congregation of any Protestant minister in the United States. On August 22, 1891, Harper's Weekly identified Dixon, along with Theodore Roosevelt ...
... attack William Jennings Bryan, but basically, he must be acknowledged as a preacher for social justice. The living and working conditions of the poor of New York angered Dixon deeply, and he was to continue his attacks on such ...
... allowing for the release of Dr. Cameron. “A new mob of onion-laden breath, mixed with perspiring African odor, became the symbol of American democracy” (p. 155). Thomas Dixon seizes the opportunity to attack special interest groups.
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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 | |