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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... writings of Thomas Dixon. Finally, thanks to Angelique Cain Galskis and Leila Salisbury at the University Press of Kentucky for believing in the project. AMERICAN RACIST INTRODUCTION Although some of his novels still remain.
The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon Anthony Slide. AMERICAN RACIST INTRODUCTION Although some of his novels still remain in print,
... novel to the same end. In his mind, a Northerner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, had libeled the South in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Thomas Dixon set out to put the record straight with The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and other novels ...
... novels have achieved such status. In 1925, when Publishers Weekly documented the best-selling fiction of the past quarter century, no novel by Dixon was included. The list was headed by Sinclair Lewis's Main Street and included Edith M ...
... novels are dismissed as “unashamedly racist,” and his 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 ...
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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 | |