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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... wrote the only published biography of Thomas Dixon, Fire from the Flint. Its subtitle, The Amazing Careers of Thomas Dixon, properly acknowledges that the subject was not only a prolific and controversial novelist but also a popular ...
... wrote and to Dixon's film productions. They are almost all stirring social melodramas, morality plays in which the morality is that of their auteur and, more often than not, that of the general American populace. With The Birth of a ...
... wrote in 1923, “The moving picture man, author and producer and exhibitor should take himself more seriously. He is not merely the purveyor of a form of amusement. He is leading a revolution in the development of humanity—as profound a ...
... wrote it as vividly and simply as I knew how.” 11 While of limited, if any, literary worth, his novels demonstrate a skill in storytelling; polemical in content, they affected the thinking of millions of Americans from both the South ...
... wrote, and directed their own films, and both could boast of immediate name recognition with their contemporary audiences. From the American silent film era, only pioneering female director Lois Weber is comparable, but her films are ...
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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 | |