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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... father. Griffith heard of the great Civil War battles from his parent, while Dixon was told by his father and his uncle, Colonel Leroy McAfee, how they had helped organize the local Ku Klux Klan in 1868–69. Both men told their fathers ...
... ten-yearold boy, Dixon was baptized into his father's church and reborn. In the process, he was required to repent of his sins—and the only guilt that he felt was the revengeful killing of a dog. An. 1. 2 The Life Worth Living.
... Father, the central character, Major Norton, releases a tortured fox from a trap, urging the animal to “Go—go—I'm sorry I hurt you like that!” (p. 258). There is another area in which Dixon's political correctness is unusual for his age ...
... father had “freed” his slaves at the close of the Civil War, except for an elderly “mammy” who remained as one of the family. By all accounts, Dixon's early life was at times a lonely but never an unhappy one. He saw firsthand the ...
... father stops the funeral—“Don't put her in that grave! A nigger dug it” (p. 380)—until his Confederate colleagues ... Fathers it shall be ruled by white men until the Arch-Angel shall call the end of time!” (p. 446). Miscegenation is an ...
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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 | |