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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... obvious that Dixon believed in the Bible's interpretation of man's dominion over animals rather than ownership of them. His denunciation of hunting is evident from the comments of the heroine in his last novel, The Flaming Sword, as she ...
... obvious success, Dixon was forever dissatisfied with his work, and on January 15, 1899, he announced his resignation as pastor of the People's Church. As he later explained to the New York Herald (April 30, 1906), it was “for reasons of ...
... obviously aware both of the novel and of its impact, but it was the play that upset him so much that he wept at its misrepresentation of Southerners. 2 He determined that he would write a sequel to Uncle Tom's Cabin, featuring one of ...
... obvious delight in ridicule, as when dealing with the liberal Northern politician Everett Lowell. Lowell is the mentor of George Harris, the baby carried across the ice by escaped slave Eliza Harris in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Educated at ...
... obvious message of The Leopard's Spots is proven to be correct: “The Ethiopian can not change his skin, or the leopard his spots” (p. 463). Through George Harris's later life, Dixon emphasizes that the condition of the Negro is, in ...
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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 | |