|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910973658503321 |
|
|
Autore |
Slide Anthony |
|
|
Titolo |
American racist : the life and films of Thomas Dixon / / Anthony Slide |
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Lexington, : University Press of Kentucky, c2004 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
0-8131-3824-8 |
1-283-23294-4 |
9786613232946 |
0-8131-7191-1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (261 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
|