Thomas Dixon Jr. and the birth of modern America /
[Book]
edited by Michele K. Gillespie and Randal L. Hall.
Louisiana pbk. ed.
Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2009.
224 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates :
illustrations ;
22 cm.
Making the modern South
Includes bibliographical references, filmography (pages 213-214), and index.
Thomas Dixon : American Proteus / W. Fitzhugh Brundage -- "My books are hard reading for a Negro" : Tom Dixon and his African American critics, 1905-1939 / John David Smith -- Gender and race in Dixon's religious ideology / Cynthia Lynn Lyerly -- "Ours is a century of light" : Dixon's strange consistency / David Stricklin -- Thomas Dixon and the literary production of whiteness / Scott Romine -- Thomas Dixon and race melodrama / Jane M. Gaines -- The cinematic representation of race in The birth of a nation : a black horror film / Charlene Regester -- Do movies have rights? / Louis Menand -- Epilogue : the enduring worlds of Thomas Dixon / William A. Link.
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Dixon, Thomas,1864-1946-- Criticism and interpretation.
Dixon, Thomas,1864-1946-- Knowledge-- United States.
Dixon, Thomas,1864-1946
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Race in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Racism in literature.
Racism in motion pictures.
National characteristics, American, in literature.