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Author Abel, Richard, 1941-

Title Americanizing the movies and "movie-mad" audiences, 1910-1914 / Richard Abel
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 373 pages)
Contents American variety and/or foreign features : the throes of film distribution -- The "usable past" of westerns I -- The "usable past" of westerns II -- The "usable past" of Civil War films, during the "Golden Jubilee" -- The "usable present" of thrillers, from the jungle to the city -- "The power of personality in pictures": movie stars and "matinee girls."
Summary 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. 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Motion pictures -- United States -- History
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States
Nationalism -- United States
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
Motion pictures
Motion pictures -- Social aspects
Nationalism
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021696924
ISBN 9780520939523
0520939522
1282358391
9781282358393
Other Titles Imagined community of United States cinema