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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... critic Joel Siegel that I was working on a book concerning Thomas Dixon, he astonished me with the revelation that his mother-in-law, Charleen Swansea, was Dixon's great-great-granddaughter and put me in touch with this remarkable woman ...
... critic as “flaming stories of love, adventure and intrigue.” 6 The same description might equally be applied to the twelve or more plays that he wrote and to Dixon's film productions. They are almost all stirring social melodramas ...
... critics; one wrote, “His realism is the realism of the open sore; his art the art of the Such a comment is both an assault on and an affirmation of Dixon's pragmatic integrity. There are some who argue that Dixon is both a racist and a ...
... critic. Dixon became enamored of the theatre and on his twentieth birthday made his first visit to New York and experienced for the first time what the city had to offer in terms of both dramatic and operatic entertainment. He left ...
... critic wrote of him: His dark eyes seem really luminous; his high, thin nostrils are sensitive to emotion; his every motion on the platform is a definition of grace and vigor; his articulation is marvelous for its distinctness and ...
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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 | |