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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... Cameron invites his son to witness an experiment. He believes that impressions remain in the brain and images in the eye. By using a microscope to examine Mrs. Lenoir's eye, Dr. Cameron obtains what he claims to be an image of Gus but ...
... Cameron has tried earlier to reason with Stoneman, but ultimately it is the Klan that delivers salvation. In acknowledgment of the supposed Scottish ancestry of the Ku Klux Klan, despite the fact that the link is nebulous and the fiery ...
... Cameron to Austin Stoneman, “For a Russian to rule a Pole ... , a Turk to rule a Greek, or an Austrian to dominate an Italian, is hard enough, but for a thick-lipped, flat-nosed, spindle-shanked negro, exuding his nauseating animal odor ...
... Cameron to his son Ben in The Clansman, Dixon noted, “Slavery was not Southern institution. It was national inheritance.” 24 In his love of the Negro, of which he frequently wrote, Dixon always claimed that “he should have the ...
... Cameron house and is hailed as the secret commander of the Black League. Dr. Cameron appears almost immediately, and the two men hold a brief conversation before Stoneman exits toward the polls, and Cameron's daughter, Flora, appears ...
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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 | |