White robes, silver screens
Subtitle: movies and the making of the Ku Klux Klan
By: Tom Rice
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780253018366; 9780253018434
Subjects: In motion pictures; Racism in motion pictures; Ku Klux Klan (1915- ); Motion picture industry; Birth of a nation (Motion picture : 1915); Influence; Racism; Motion pictures in propaganda; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Re-birth: the Birth of a nation and the growth of the Klan; title: The battle: censorship, reform, and the Klan's campaign against the film industry; title: Klan cinema: the Klan as producer and exhibitor; title: On mainstream screens: the film industry's response to the Klan; title: Epilogue.