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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... major archival collection of papers (or films, for that matter) at any library or similar facility. However, I would like to acknowledge the institutional assistance provided by the staff of the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy ...
... major representative of Southern racism. Like the director of The Birth of a Nation, D.W. Griffith, Thomas Dixon was a proud son of the South, who learned of its history from his father. Griffith heard of the great Civil War battles ...
... major capacity—for eighteen American feature films produced between 1914 and 1937. The most famous is, of course, the first, The Birth of a Nation, and just as Dixon and his collaborator, D.W. Griffith, used that initial production to ...
... major star vehicle for Rudolph Valentino, but, despite selling hundreds of thousands of copies, neither The Leopard's Spots nor The Clansman boasted comparable sales. 8 The more one reads the works of Thomas Dixon, the more one realizes ...
... major and feature-length look at what Dixon would have described as “poor white trash” in The Southerner (1945). It might be galling to Thomas Dixon, but nothing more aptly demonstrates the one-time appeal of the Old South than the ...
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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 | |