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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... films of Thomas Dixon / Anthony Slide. p. cm. Filmography: p. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0 ... Film and video adaptations. 4. Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946—Political and social views. 5. Authors, American —20th ...
... film 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 ...
... film that remains controversial almost ninety years after its original release. Like the director of The Birth of a Nation, Dixon has suffered rejection and ridicule. His name is no longer deserving of respectful prominence in the ...
... film The Mark of the Beast. Plagiarizing from oneself is no crime; somewhat more questionable is Dixon's plagiarism of Walt Whitman's Specimen Days and Collect (1882–83) for his scenes of Washington life at the close of the Civil War in ...
... films, and both could boast of immediate name recognition with their contemporary audiences. From the American silent film era, only pioneering female director Lois Weber is comparable, but her films are infinitely more liberal than ...
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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 | |