Americanizing the Movies and Movie-Mad Audiences, 1910-1914 Paperback / softback
by Richard Abel
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:391 pages, 61 b-w photographs
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:28/08/2006
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- ISBN:9780520247437
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:391 pages, 61 b-w photographs
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:28/08/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520247437
