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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... Stage 4. Southern History on Film 5. The Fall of a Nation 6. The Foolish Virgin and the New Woman 7. Dixon on Socialism 8. The Red Scare 9. Miscegenation 10. Journeyman Filmmaker 11. Nation Aflame 12. The Final Years 13. Raymond Rohauer ...
... stage in blackface. The sound motion picture might arguably have begun with The Jazz Singer in 1927, which featured the most famous of all blackface entertainers, Al Jolson. As late as 1930, Jolson starred in Big Boy entirely in ...
... for the first time what the city had to offer in terms of both dramatic and operatic entertainment. He left Johns Hopkins, enrolled at Frobisher's School of Drama in New York, and enjoyed his first professional stage experience as a player.
The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon Anthony Slide. and enjoyed his first professional stage experience as a player in Richard Foote's Shakespearian Repertoire Company. Dixon paid Foote, a theatrical shyster, three hundred dollars for the ...
... stage adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, which had first been published in serial form in the antislavery newspaper the National Era, and in book form in 1852 as Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly. An ...
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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 | |