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9%OFFTom Rice - White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan - 9780253018434 - V9780253018434
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White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan

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Description for White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 27 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APFA; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 488.

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, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253018434
SKU
V9780253018434
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About Tom Rice
Tom Rice is a lecturer in Film Studies at University of St Andrews.

Reviews for White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan
Rice sets out how the propagandist power of the Klan has always lay in its spectacle; in its regalia, and hoods, and fiery crosses . . . Within it, for the careful reader, lies a lesson on how extremists spread their hatred under other banners today.
The Guardian
Indeed, the book could not be timelier, given the nativist ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan


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