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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... interest to Dixon. Here again, to some extent, the author is closer in outlook to Leni Riefenstahl than to D.W. Griffith. Dixon belonged to the “magnolia and moonlight school of Southern literature,” and that myth of the Old South has ...
... interest in politics as quickly as he had found it, and in 1885, he became a student at the Greensboro Law School of Dick and Dillard. In 1886, he was admitted to the bar, ordained as a Baptist minister, and married to Harriet Bussey ...
... interest in the individuals to whom he was preaching, but to his audience he was a mesmerizing figure. A contemporary critic wrote of him: His dark eyes seem really luminous; his high, thin nostrils are sensitive to emotion; his every ...
... interest in Dixon beyond that of a concerned critic. Bell maintained that the “facts” in Dixon's novel were generally unknown even to the enlightened and thinking classes of the North: In The Leopard's Spots the hitherto silent ...
... the release of Dr. Cameron. “A new mob of onion-laden breath, mixed with perspiring African odor, became the symbol of American democracy” (p. 155). Thomas Dixon seizes the opportunity to attack special interest groups.
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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 | |