Americanizing the Movies and Movie-Mad Audiences, 1910-1914

by Richard Abel

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520247434
• ISBN13: 9780520247437
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 391 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"