{"product_id":"americanizing-the-movies-and-movie-mad-richard-abel-9780520247437","title":"Americanizing the Movies and Movie-Mad Audiences, 1910-1914","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Abel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520247434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520247437\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/28\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 391\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.08w x 0.91d","brand":"Richard Abel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946696769791,"sku":"9780520247437","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0d0c56f7-7539-4a34-8adf-8ce250f27228.jpg?v=1681514615","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/americanizing-the-movies-and-movie-mad-richard-abel-9780520247437","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}