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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky
©2004.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt2jchjp |
Table of 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.