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

by Tom Rice

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0253018439

ISBN13:9780253018434

Release Date:January 2016

Publisher:Indiana University Press (Ips)

Length:312 Pages

Weight:0.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Arts, Music & Photography History Performing Arts Social Science Social Sciences

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