Rice's book White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan (2015) describes the organization's
nativist pro-Protestant agenda and its attacks on Jews, Catholics, and "foreign influences" including
Charlie Chaplin and his wife
Pola Negri. The Klan's development in the 1920s included media campaigns in radio, print, and filmmaking.[6][7] He also discusses the struggles one faces in depicting the Klan (and/or the far right) in media due its
regalia.[8][7] In 2015, his book White Robes, Silver Screens was awarded an honorable mention in the Forward Indies in the category of performing arts and music (nonfiction) by the Forward Reviews.[9]
In his book Films for the Colonies: Cinema and the Preservation of the British Empire (2019), he explores the films establishment, their purposes, operations, evolution, and legacy.[10]
Publications
Books
Rice, Tom (2015). White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan. Indiana University Press.
ISBN9780253018434.[11][12][8]
Rice, Tom (2019). Films for the Colonies: Cinema and the Preservation of the British Empire. University of California Press.
ISBN9780520300385.[10][13][14][5]
Rice, Tom (2011). "From the Inside: The Colonial Film Unit and the Beginning of the End". In Grieveson, Lee; MacCabe, Colin (eds.). Film and the End of Empire. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 135–153.
ISBN978-1-84457-423-0.