Abstract:
In 1915, North Carolina novelist Thomas Dixon traveled to Hollywood to create a film entitled “The Fall of a Nation,†the sequel to “Birth of a Nation,†the successful film adaptation of his 1905 novel, “The Clansman.†Dixon's directorial, production, and script credits between 1915 and 1937 included several films involving Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan, psychoanalysis, and the Red Scare.