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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... President with the aid of but two Northern States. Is it not time to make an honest effort to understand them? I have tried to introduce you to them.” 15 The Leopard's Spots was the first in Dixon's Reconstruction Trilogy,
... President Lincoln and gain a pardon for her son (which is initially rejected by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton). Dixon's white villain Austin Stoneman is based very literally on Thaddeus Stevens (1792–1868), an abolitionist and ...
... president, Andrew Johnson, demands Secretary of War Stanton's resignation, but it is refused. In direct conflict with Johnson, Stoneman fights for his impeachment. Stanton resigns and dies in despair, allowing for the release of Dr ...
... president deal squarely and frankly with the issue: speaking to a number of representative Negroes, Lincoln says, “The Colony of Liberia is an old one, is in a sense a success and it is open to you. I am arranging to open another 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 | |