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Americanizing the Movies and Movie-Mad Audiences, 1910-1914

Americanizing the Movies and Movie-Mad Audiences, 1910-1914

by Richard Abel
Publication Date: 01/08/2006

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This engaging, deeply researched study provides the richest and most nuanced picture we have to date of cinemaboth movies and movie-goingin 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 picturesall 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 columnsthe latter of which highlight the importance of the emerging star systemAbel 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."
ISBN:
9780520247420
9780520247420
Category:
Film theory & criticism
Publication Date:
01-08-2006
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of California Press
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
228.6x152.4x25.4mm
Weight:
0.49kg

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