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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... Woman 7. Dixon on Socialism 8. The Red Scare 9. Miscegenation 10. Journeyman Filmmaker 11. Nation Aflame 12. The Final Years 13. Raymond Rohauer and the Dixon Legacy Filmography Notes Bibliography Index Illustrations follow page 118 ...
... woman. My thanks to you both. Thomas Dixon left no major archival collection of papers (or films, for that matter) at any library or similar facility. However, I would like to acknowledge the institutional assistance provided by the ...
... Woman becomes Companions, while The Foolish Virgin serves as the basis for Dixon's film The Mark of the Beast. Plagiarizing from oneself is no crime; somewhat more questionable is Dixon's plagiarism of Walt Whitman's Specimen Days and ...
... women's suffrage, on socialism, and on communism may appear outmoded, one should never doubt Dixon's integrity or his supreme faith in his Southern philosophy. A populist author, he provided Americans with as much satisfying reading ...
... woman good enough, broad enough, wise enough to hold the autocratic power to press hands on the throat of an author and say, 'You shall think only as I think and write only what I say shall be written.'” 13 Thomas Dixon and D.W. ...
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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 | |