Thomas Dixon Jr. and the birth of modern America
By: edited by Michele K. Gillespie and Randal L. Hall
Edition: Louisiana pbk. ed.
Series: Making the modern South; Making the modern South
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780807135327
Subjects: Knowledge; Racism in motion pictures; Criticism and interpretation; Racism in literature; Race in literature; United States; Race relations in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography (p. 213-214), and index.
Table of contents: title: Thomas Dixon : American Proteus / W. Fitzhugh Brundage; title: "My books are hard reading for a Negro" : Tom Dixon and his African American critics, 1905-1939 / John David Smith; title: Gender and race in Dixon's religious ideology / Cynthia Lynn Lyerly; title: "Ours is a century of light" : Dixon's strange consistency / David Stricklin; title: Thomas Dixon and the literary production of whiteness / Scott Romine; title: Thomas Dixon and race melodrama / Jane M. Gaines; title: The cinematic representation of race in The birth of a nation : a black horror film / Charlene Regester; title: Do movies have rights? / Louis Menand; title: Epilogue : the enduring worlds of Thomas Dixon / William A. Link.