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American racist : the life and films of Thomas Dixon / Anthony Slide.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2004.Description: 1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0813171911
  • 9780813171913
  • 9780813138244
  • 0813138248
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: American racist.DDC classification:
  • 818/.5209 B 22
LOC classification:
  • PS3507.I93 Z86 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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 views.
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Filmography: pages 209-212.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index.

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.

"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 views.

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