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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... claimed that his closest friend as a child until he went to college was an African American boy named Dick, whom he regarded as his brother: “His skin was very black, his nose very flat, but there was no evil in his young heart and I ...
... claimed that the former's attacks on his organization were unjust. 6 Dixon did not respond, but a year later, he told the New York Times that the modern Klan was “a growing menace to the cause of law and order ... a provocation to ...
... claimed to have amassed a fortune of fifty million dollars. Dixon quotes Abraham Lincoln's 1858 statement: I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races ...
... claimed to have spent more than a dozen years researching The Leopard's Spots, but only sixty days in the actual writing of the novel, which was initially titled The Rise of Simon Legree, in the log cabin studio at Elmington Manor. When ...
... claimed that “he should have the opportunity for the highest, noblest and freest development of his full, rounded manhood.” 25 The problem was that Dixon's notion of this development excluded a life and career in the United States ...
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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 | |