Americanizing the movies and "movie-mad" audiences, 1910-1914 / / Richard Abel

• Autore: Abel Richard <1941->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• 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
• 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.: 9910811838203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II