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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... became almost a mantra for the two men. Griffith tried to recount what he believed to be the truth of the Civil War and Reconstruction in The Birth of a Nation, utilizing a medium with which he was familiar and which he had largely ...
... became close to a fellow student, Woodrow Wilson, some years his senior. It was the latter who introduced Dixon to the editor of the Baltimore Mirror, where he was briefly employed as a drama critic. Dixon became enamored of the theatre ...
... became a student at the Greensboro Law School of Dick and Dillard. In 1886, he was admitted to the bar, ordained as a Baptist minister, and married to Harriet Bussey, herself the daughter of a Baptist minister. The couple met in March ...
... became a minister at Dudley Street Church in Boston. Here, Dixon experienced Northern racism for the first time when the Negro nurse of his young baby was refused admission to the hotel where he was staying with his wife. The family ...
... became motion pictures, most notably The Christian (1897) and The Eternal City (1901). On publication of The Manxman, Dixon wrote: “The marvelous power of this book is something immortal. I have never read a book of more resistless ...
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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 | |