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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... success in more than one field. More rarely still does a man achieve fame in three or more fields.” 1 Unfortunately, what Cook fails to note is that the compelling nature of Dixon's personality is his blatant racism, to which others ...
... success of The Birth of a Nation, he ceased to concentrate on the written page and immersed himself in the projected image. As a 1916 reporter commented, “He will tell you, with a ring of sincerity in his voice and a flash of idealism ...
... successful, for his oratory is unique, and as an orator he can claim most justly, what he has no right to claim as a ... success, Dixon was forever dissatisfied with his work, and on January 15, 1899, he announced his resignation as ...
... success and it is open to you. I am arranging to open another in Central America. It is nearer than Liberia—within seven days by steamer. . . . I ask you to consider it seriously, not for yourselves merely, nor for your race and ours ...
... success, Dixon determined to adapt it for the stage. What might appear from a modern perspective as nothing more than racist cartoon characters on the printed page became living, breathing reality on the legitimate stage. Dixon studied ...
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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 | |