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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... described by one 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 ...
... described as “poor white trash” in The Southerner (1945). It might be galling to Thomas Dixon, but nothing more aptly demonstrates the one-time appeal of the Old South than the eight versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin filmed between 1903 and ...
... to the Convention of Seceded States, said, “Our separatism is final, absolute and eternal.” Thomas Dixon might similarly have described his accomplishments as final, absolute, and eternal. THE LIFE WORTH LIVING In 1905, Thomas Dixon Jr. 1.
... described by James Zebulon Wright as “the sort of writing one saw later in Dixon's own work.” 10 The Wake Forest Student was also the outlet for Dixon's first play, From College to Prison, published in January 1883; it was a drama of a ...
... described as the People's Temple), in the auditorium of the Academy of Music, where on his first visit to New York in 1884, he had heard Adelina Patti sing in Les Huguenots. She also sang “Home Sweet Home,” which Dixon considered to be ...
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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 | |