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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... early vindication of Nazi Germany. For Riefenstahl, Nazism was her subject. For Dixon, the South was not merely his subject but his cause. Whether the issues are right or wrong, few filmmakers can claim to have influenced audiences as ...
... ” and that myth of the Old South has been perpetuated on screen from the early years of the twentieth century. Dixon's South was the South of The Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind, a romantic vision, tinged with violence, but a.
... early as I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932). It is the South that seems only in recent decades to have lost its virginity, and thus its appeal to filmgoers. It was not until 1947 that African American novelist Frank Yerby brought ...
... early manhood was very much a public figure, one who had never shied away from controversy. Whatever his beliefs, no matter how inflammatory they might be, Thomas Dixon stood behind them, uncompromising and proud. Most liberals and all ...
... early life of the Dick of the novel is identical to that of Dick in Dixon's autobiography, with the only difference being that the Dick of The Leopard's Spots is later lynched for the rape and murder of a white teenager. Dixon was ...
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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 | |