TY - JOUR
T1 - Protecting Protestantism
T2 - The Ku Klux Klan vs. The Motion Picture Industry
AU - Rice, Tom
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - In the spring of 1923 the Ku Klux Klan launched a series of protests against Charlie Chaplin's The Pilgrim and the Pola Negri film, Bella Donna. This article considers how and why the Klan opposed these films. Drawing on extensive research in Klan newspapers, the article suggests that the Klan sought to promote and define itself through its discourses with the film industry and repositions the Klan as a hugely influential and overlooked social reform group, pressurising the industry during the 1920s.
AB - In the spring of 1923 the Ku Klux Klan launched a series of protests against Charlie Chaplin's The Pilgrim and the Pola Negri film, Bella Donna. This article considers how and why the Klan opposed these films. Drawing on extensive research in Klan newspapers, the article suggests that the Klan sought to promote and define itself through its discourses with the film industry and repositions the Klan as a hugely influential and overlooked social reform group, pressurising the industry during the 1920s.
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UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/FIL.2008.20.3.367
U2 - 10.2979/FIL.2008.20.3.367
DO - 10.2979/FIL.2008.20.3.367
M3 - Article
SN - 0892-2160
VL - 20
SP - 367
EP - 380
JO - Film History
JF - Film History
IS - 3
ER -