Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 242 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0813138248
,
0813123283
,
0813171911
,
9780813138244
,
9780813123288
,
9780813171913
Content:
"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 out
Content:
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
Note:
Filmography: pages 209-212 -- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0813123283
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Slide, Anthony American racist Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2004
Language:
English
URL:
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