American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon Tapa dura - 2004

UsedAcceptable. The item is very worn but continues to work perfectly. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing (age related spots and browning). May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in gilt-lettered quarter black cloth and red paper-covered boards. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. x/242 pages.
""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 outrageous opinions on race, communism, socialism, and feminism. His most spectacular production, "The Fall of a Nation" (1916), argues for American preparedness in the face of war and boasts a… Leer más

Hardback. New. Like the majority of Dixon's films, The Fall of a Nation has been lost, but had it survived, it might well have taken its place alongside The Birth of a Nation as a masterwork of silent film.

Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Hard cover. New in new dust jacket.. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 242 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. hardcover dj, new book!

Univ Pr of Kentucky, 2004. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition. 264 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

University Press of Kentucky. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth spine/red boards, titled in gilt. First edition with full number line. Inscribed by Slide to the ffep to Bob Birchard, award- winning film and video editor and noted film historian. Fine condition. The DJ in mylar with flap price of $35.00 is in like condition. Square and tight in unclipped DJ. ; 9.10 X 6.10 X 1.20 inches; Signed by Author .

University Press of Kentucky, 2004-09-10. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!