Americanizing the movies and "movie-mad" audiences, 1910-1914 [[electronic resource] /] / Richard Abel
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| Autore: |
Abel Richard <1941->
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| Titolo: |
Americanizing the movies and "movie-mad" audiences, 1910-1914 [[electronic resource] /] / Richard Abel
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.430973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Motion pictures - United States - History |
| Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States | |
| Nationalism - United States | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | 1910s |
| american cinema | |
| american history | |
| americanizing film | |
| animal films | |
| anthropologists | |
| cinema studies | |
| civil war films | |
| critical analysis | |
| detective films | |
| early cinema | |
| film distribution | |
| film historians | |
| film industry | |
| film scholars | |
| film studies | |
| immigrant culture | |
| movie audiences | |
| moviegoing | |
| national identity | |
| nonfiction study | |
| popular film genres | |
| sensational melodramas | |
| sociologists | |
| united states | |
| westerns | |
| working class culture | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- L'Envoi of Moving Pictures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. American Variety and/or Foreign Features -- Entr'acte 1. Mapping the Local Terrain of Exhibition -- Chapter 2. The "Usable Past" of Westerns -- Entr'acte 2. Moviegoing Habits and Everyday Life -- Chapter 3. The "Usable Past" of Westerns -- Entr'acte 3. A "Forgotten" Part of the Program -- Chapter 4. The "Usable Past" of Civil War Films -- Entr'acte 4. Another "Forgotten" Part of the Program -- Chapter 5. The "Usable Present" of Thrillers -- Entr'acte 5. Trash Twins -- Chapter 6. "The Power of Personality in Pictures" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 1910's. 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. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Imagined community of United States cinema |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Americanizing the movies and "movie-mad" audiences, 1910-1914 |
| ISBN: | 1-282-35839-1 |
| 0-520-93952-2 | |
| 9786612358395 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910782201003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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