| Description |
1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Filmography: pages 209-212. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index. |
| 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 out. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946.
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Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946. |
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Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946 -- Film adaptations.
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Film adaptations.
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Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946 -- Political and social views.
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Political and social views. |
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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20th century |
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Authors, American. |
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Biographies.
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Film adaptations -- History and criticism.
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Film adaptations. |
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African Americans in motion pictures.
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African Americans in motion pictures. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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Racism in motion pictures.
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Racism in motion pictures. |
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Racism -- United States.
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Racism. |
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Racism in literature.
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Racism in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Racism. |
| Genre/Form |
Film adaptations.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Slide, Anthony. American racist. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2004 0813123283 (DLC) 2004006074 (OCoLC)54825856 |
| ISBN |
0813171911 (electronic book) |
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9780813171913 (electronic book) |
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9780813138244 (electronic book) |
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0813138248 (electronic book) |
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0813123283 (acid-free paper) |
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9780813123288 |
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