Americanizing the Movies and Movie-Mad Audiences, 1910-1914
by Abel, Richard
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- 0520247434
- ISBN 13
- 9780520247437
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 1st pbk.. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 373 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. This engaging, deeply researched study provides the richest and most nuanced picture we have to date of cinema-both movies and movie-going-in the early 1910s. At the same time, it makes clear the profound relationship between early cinema and the construction of a national identity in this important transitional period in the United States. Richard Abel looks closely at sensational melodramas, including westerns (cowboy, cowboy-girl, and Indian pictures), Civil War films (especially girl-spy films), detective films, and animal pictures-all popular genres of the day that have received little critical attention. He simultaneously analyzes film distribution and exhibition practices in order to reconstruct a context for understanding moviegoing at a time when American cities were coming to grips with new groups of immigrants and women working outside the home. Drawing from a wealth of research in archive prints, the trade press, fan magazines, newspaper advertising, reviews, and syndicated columns-the latter of which highlight the importance of the emerging star system-Abel sheds new light on the history of the film industry, on working-class and immigrant culture at the turn of the century, and on the process of imaging a national community. Record # 385031
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- Title
- Americanizing the Movies and Movie-Mad Audiences, 1910-1914
- Author
- Abel, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st pbk.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0520247434
- ISBN 13
- 9780520247437
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- cinema, History, , .
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