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American racist : the life and films of Thomas Dixon

"Thomas Dixon has a notorious reputation as the writer of the source material for D.W. Griffith's ground-breaking 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, multi-talented 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 views
Print Book, English, ©2004
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, ©2004
Biography
x, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780813123288, 0813123283
54825856
The life worth living
Southern history on the printed page
Southern history on stage
Southern history on film
The fall of a nation
The foolish virgin and the new woman
Dixon on socialism
The red scare
Miscegenation
Journeyman filmmaker
Nation aflame
The final years
Raymond Rohauer and Dixon legacy