| Description |
1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Filmography: pages 209-212 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946
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Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946 -- Film adaptations
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Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946 -- Political and social views
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| SUBJECT |
Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946 fast |
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Film adaptations -- History and criticism
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African Americans in motion pictures.
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African Americans in literature.
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Racism in motion pictures.
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Racism against Black people -- United States
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Racism in literature.
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Racism -- United States
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Entertainment & Performing Arts.
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African Americans in literature
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African Americans in motion pictures
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Authors, American
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Film adaptations
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Motion pictures
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Political and social views
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Racism
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Racism in literature
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Racism in motion pictures
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United States
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Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Film adaptations
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2004006074 |
| ISBN |
0813171911 |
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9780813171913 |
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9780813138244 |
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0813138248 |
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