White Robes, Silver Screens (eBook)

Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan

Tom Rice (Autor)

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2016
312 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-01848-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The Ku Klux Klan was reestablished in Atlanta in 1915, barely a week before the Atlanta premiere of The Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith's paean to the original Klan. While this link between Griffith's film and the Klan has been widely acknowledged, Tom Rice explores the little-known relationship between the Klan's success and its use of film and media in the interwar years when the image, function, and moral rectitude of the Klan was contested on the national stage. By examining rich archival materials including a series of films produced by the Klan and a wealth of documents, newspaper clippings, and manuals, Rice uncovers the fraught history of the Klan as a local force that manipulated the American film industry to extend its reach across the country. White Robes, Silver Screens highlights the ways in which the Klan used, produced, and protested against film in order to recruit members, generate publicity, and define its role within American society.

Autor

Tom Rice is a lecturer in Film Studies at University of St Andrews.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Re-Birth: The Birth of a Nation and the Growth of the Klan
2. The Battle: Censorship, Reform, and the Klan's Campaign against the Film Industry
3. Klan Cinema: The Klan as Producer and Exhibitor
4. On Mainstream Screens: The Film Industry's Response to the Klan
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.1.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 27 b&w illus.
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Gewicht: 26 g
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 38 • American History • American Studies • Film • Film &#38 • Film & Media • Film History • History • media • Race
• ISBN-10: 0-253-01848-X / 025301848X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-01848-9 / 9780253018489