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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... never published but in my opinion is the best account, had to admit, “I admire Thomas Dixon more than anything in the world. . . . admire him because, once logically arriving at a conclusion even though today it is known to be ...
... never made a man or a woman good enough, broad enough, wise enough to hold the autocratic power to press hands on the throat of an author and say, 'You shall think only as I think and write only what I say shall be written.'” 13 Thomas ...
... never shied away from controversy. Whatever his beliefs, no matter how inflammatory they might be, Thomas Dixon stood behind them, uncompromising and proud. Most liberals and all African Americans regarded him as an unreconstructed ...
... never to hunt coons again. Abraham Lincoln as a boy in The Southerner refuses again to participate in a coon hunt after witnessing its horror, depicted by Dixon in graphic detail. In The Sins of the Father, the central character, Major ...
... never any animosity toward them. “I was placed in my cradle by the hand of a slave, a black saint from whom I first learned of God and eternity,” he wrote in his autobiography. 3 In many of his non-Southern novels there are African ...
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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 | |