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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... later as The Black Hood. The One Woman becomes Companions, while The Foolish Virgin serves as the basis for Dixon's film The Mark of the Beast. Plagiarizing from oneself is no crime; somewhat more questionable is Dixon's plagiarism of ...
... later works, with “Dixon's extremist views focused on other issues,” are “of no literary merit.” 10 Dixon himself might have responded to such criticism by saying, “I had a message and I wrote it as vividly and simply as I knew how.” 11 ...
... later lynched for the rape and murder of a white teenager. Dixon was notorious for recycling his own writings, and it may well be that in old age he decided to recreate his fictional Dick as a real-life childhood companion. Dick may ...
... on his organization were unjust. 6 Dixon did not respond, but a year later, he told the New York Times that the modern Klan was “a growing menace to the cause of law and order ... a provocation to violence and disorder.”
... later named himself Imperial Wizard of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, he said, “I can't see how any white man can think the nigger is equal. ... In Africa, the richest land in the world, he's never been able to build a ...
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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 | |