American racist : the life and films of Thomas Dixon /
"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...
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| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky
©2004.
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| سلاسل: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt2jchjp |
| الملخص: | "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. |
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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : illustrations |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Filmography: pages 209-212. Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index. |
| ردمك: | 0813171911 9780813171913 9780813138244 0813138248 0813123283 9780813123288 |
| وصول: | Single user license access. |