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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... prominence in the history of American popular culture. The eighteen novels that Dixon published between 1903 and 1939 have been described by one critic as “flaming stories of love, adventure and intrigue.” 6 The same description might ...
... prominent in The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919). Dixon also featured Southern characters with high, if not always palatable, ideals in his films, and the South is important to the two screen adaptations of The Foolish Virgin and in his ...
... prominently in Dixon's first novels, and his name is permanently linked to the original organization and the principles on which it was founded. But Dixon was no fan of the modern, twentieth-century Klan; from his pulpit and in his ...
... prominent slaveholders in South Carolina, while his father had “freed” his slaves at the close of the Civil War, except for an elderly “mammy” who remained as one of the family. By all accounts, Dixon's early life was at times a lonely ...
... prominent characters, Simon Legree. The impetus for Dixon's career as a writer may have been Uncle Tom's Cabin, but the literary formula was provided by Polish author Henryk Sienkiewewicz (1846–1916), winner of the 1905 Nobel Prize for ...
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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 | |