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Thomas Dixon, Jr. and the birth of modern America

Title
Thomas Dixon, Jr. and the birth of modern America [electronic resource] / edited by Michele K. Gillespie and Randal L. Hall.
Publication
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Gillespie, Michele.
  • Hall, Randal L., 1971-
Description
1 online resource (viii, 224 p., [6] p. of plates) : ill.
Series Statement
Making the modern South
Uniform Title
Thomas Dixon, Jr. and the birth of modern America (Online)
Subject
  • Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946 > Knowledge and learning
  • National characteristics, American, in literature
  • Race relations in literature
  • Racism in motion pictures
  • Racism in literature
  • Race in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Thomas Dixon: American Proteus / W. Fitzhugh Brundage -- "My books are hard reading for a Negro": Tom Dixon and his African American critics, 1905-1939 / John David Smith -- Gender and race in Dixon's religious ideology / Cynthia Lynn Lyerly -- "Ours is a century of light": Dixon's strange consistency / David Stricklin -- Thomas Dixon and the literary production of whiteness / Scott Romine -- Thomas Dixon and race melodrama / Jane M. Gaines -- The cinematic representation of race in The birth of a nation: a Black horror film / Charlene Regester -- Do movies have rights? / Louis Menand -- Epilogue: the enduring worlds of Thomas Dixon / William A. Link.
LCCN
2005016977
OCLC
ssj0000343698
Title
Thomas Dixon, Jr. and the birth of modern America [electronic resource] / edited by Michele K. Gillespie and Randal L. Hall.
Imprint
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2006.
Series
Making the modern South
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Gillespie, Michele.
Hall, Randal L., 1971-
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