Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index.
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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.
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"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.
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American racist.
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PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Dixon, Thomas,1864-1946-- Film adaptations.
Dixon, Thomas,1864-1946-- Political and social views.
Dixon, Thomas,1864-1946.
Dixon, Thomas,1864-1946
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in motion pictures.
Authors, American-- 20th century, Biography.
Film adaptations-- History and criticism.
Motion pictures-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Racism in literature.
Racism in motion pictures.
Racism-- United States.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in motion pictures.
Authors, American.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Entertainment & Performing Arts.