American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon

by Anthony Slide

Book Overview

" 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813123283
• ISBN13: 9780813123288
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher