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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... become a major star vehicle for Rudolph Valentino, but, despite selling hundreds of thousands of copies, neither The ... becomes Companions, while The Foolish Virgin serves as the basis for Dixon's film The Mark of the Beast ...
... becoming chocolate covered white men, but in pursuing their own separate African-American identity. Nevertheless, undeterred by facts, experience or evidence, the liberals, the integrationists, and multiculturalists fanatically press on ...
... become head of a new congregation, the Raleigh Tabernacle. The showmanship that he evinced early in his career as a preacher was to dominate all aspects of his later life. Dixon is the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century equivalent ...
... become to me of supreme importance” 12 —Dixon decided to move on and form a new church, the People's Church (sometimes described as the People's Temple), in the auditorium of the Academy of Music, where on his first visit to New York in ...
... becoming headquarters for the Cuban liberation movement. Thomas Dixon was somewhat aloof as a public speaker, having little interest in the individuals to whom he was preaching, but to his audience he was a mesmerizing figure. A ...
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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 | |