Americanizing the Movies and "Movie-Mad" Audiences, 1910-1914.
Başlık:
Americanizing the Movies and "Movie-Mad" Audiences, 1910-1914.
Yazar:
Abel, Richard.
ISBN:
9780520939523
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Basım Bilgisi:
1st ed.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (392 pages)
İçerik:
Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- "L'Envoi of Moving Pictures" -- Introduction -- "Signs of the Times," -- Chapter 1. American Variety and/or Foreign Features -- Document: "The Backbone of the Business," -- "The Power of a Nickel," -- Entr'acte 1. Mapping the Local Terrain of Exhibition -- Document: "Moving Pictures and Their Audiences," -- "My Picture Girl," -- Chapter 2. The "Usable Past" of Westerns -- "Bein' Usher in a Motion Picture Show," -- Entr'acte 2. Moviegoing Habits and Everyday Life -- Document: "Some Picture Show Audiences," -- "The Motion Picture Cowboy," -- Chapter 3. The "Usable Past" of Westerns -- Document: "Latest Snapshots Local and Worldwide," -- "In a Minor Chord," -- Entr'acte 3. A "Forgotten" Part of the Program -- Document: "Unique Effects in Song Slides," -- "A Dixie Mother," -- Chapter 4. The "Usable Past" of Civil War Films -- Document: "Sundered Ties," -- Document: "Feature Films: The Battle of Gettysburg," -- "He's Seen a Lot," -- Entr'acte 4. Another "Forgotten" Part of the Program -- "The Maid of the Movies," -- Chapter 5. The "Usable Present" of Thrillers -- Document: "Advertising and Criticising," -- "The Photoplayers," -- Entr'acte 5. Trash Twins -- Document: "Moving Picture Sections," -- "The M. P. Girl," -- Chapter 6. "The Power of Personality in Pictures" -- Document: "Personality a Force in Pictures, -- Document: " 'Miss Billie Unafraid -- Document: "Sees the Movies as Great, New Field for Womenfolk" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Özet:
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.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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