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[CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 75]White Robes, Silver Screens

Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan
Tom Rice
   "Quickly moving us beyond everything we knew about D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, Tom Rice's White Robes, Silver Screens is a brilliant exposé that unveils the complex, rich, and disturbing history of the modern Klan, its extensive appropriations of motion pictures for political purposes, its attacks on Hollywood, and Hollywood's own multi-faceted responses to this powerful force of reaction. A fresh and compelling perspective on American cinema from the release of Griffith's blockbuster to the Second World War." -Charles Musser, Yale University

"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

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

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