03451nam 2200769 a 450 991081560820332120231127235354.00-8131-3824-81-283-23294-497866132329460-8131-7191-1(CKB)1000000000461350(EBL)792205(OCoLC)67553562(SSID)ssj0000102369(PQKBManifestationID)11127610(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102369(PQKBWorkID)10060183(PQKB)11515052(OCoLC)859679587(MdBmJHUP)muse13799(Au-PeEL)EBL792205(CaPaEBR)ebr10495385(CaONFJC)MIL323294(MiAaPQ)EBC792205(EXLCZ)99100000000046135020040316d2004 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrAmerican racist[electronic resource] the life and films of Thomas Dixon /Anthony SlideLexington University Press of Kentuckyc20041 online resource (261 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8131-2328-3 Filmography: p. 209-212.Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-232) and index.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"" 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 hisMotion picturesUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAuthors, American20th centuryBiographyFilm adaptationsHistory and criticismAfrican Americans in motion picturesAfrican Americans in literatureRacism in motion picturesRacismUnited StatesRacism in literatureMotion picturesHistoryAuthors, AmericanFilm adaptationsHistory and criticism.African Americans in motion pictures.African Americans in literature.Racism in motion pictures.RacismRacism in literature.818/.5209BSlide Anthony457503MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815608203321American racist4029609UNINA