White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (914 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0253018439 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Dave Hulsey said Five Stars. excellent read for those interested in movies and how people use them.
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. Griffith’s paean to the original Klan. The Ku Klux Klan was reestablished in Atlanta in 1915, barely a week before the Atlanta premiere of The Birth of a Nation, D. 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 protes
"Quickly moving us beyond everything we knew about D. What is brought to the forefront by this landmark work is the pivotal role played by moving pictures in elevating the Klan to prominence in 1920s, as well as in facilitating its subsequent decline in the following decades." Early Popular Visual Culture"Rice is alive to the irony of the Klan’s simultaneous antimodernist response to film and the embrace of this influential new medium when it suited the organization Rice’s volume is a masterful, definitive account of this underexplored phenomenon, and it is written with a confident grasp of the complex and often contradictory forces that shape films and their place in American social history." Southern Jewish History"Rice’s study of the complex, mutual development of the
Tom Rice is a lecturer in Film Studies at University of St Andrews.