American racist [[electronic resource] ] : the life and films of Thomas Dixon / / Anthony Slide

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815608203321
• Autore: Slide Anthony
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lexington, : University Press of Kentucky, c2004
• ISBN: 0-8131-3824-8; 1-283-23294-4; 9786613232946; 0-8131-7191-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 p.)
• Disciplina: 818/.5209; B
• Soggetti: Motion pictures - United States - History - 20th century; Authors, American - 20th century; Film adaptations - History and criticism; African Americans in motion pictures; African Americans in literature; Racism in motion pictures; Racism - United States; Racism in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Filmography: p. 209-212.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-232) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Life Worth Living; 2. Southern History on the Printed Page; 3. Southern History on Stage; 4. Southern History on Film; 5. The Fall of a Nation; 6. The Foolish Virgin and the New Woman; 7. Dixon on Socialism; Photo insert; 8. The Red Scare; 9. Miscegenation; 10. Journeyman Filmmaker; 11. Nation Aflame; 12. The Final Years; 13. Raymond Rohauer and the Dixon Legacy; Filmography; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "" 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, 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