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  • Motor City Movie Culture, 1916–1925

    by Richard Abel ...
    A study of how the film industry came to flourish in Detroit in the early years as locals were lured into the new picture theaters.Motor City Movie Culture, 1916–1925 is a broad textured look at Hollywood coming of age in a city with a burgeoning population and complex demographics. Richard Abel investigates the role of local Detroit organizations in producing, distributing, exhibiting, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Early Cinema and the "National"

    Edited by Richard Abel, Giorgio Bertellini, Rob King ...
    Essays on "how motion pictures in the first two decades of the 20th century constructed 'communities of nationality' . . . recommended." — ChoiceWhile many studies have been written on national cinemas, Early Cinema and the "National" is the first anthology to focus on the concept of national film culture from a wide methodological spectrum of interests, including not only visual and narrative ... Read more

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  • Alfred the Great

    War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England

    by Richard Abels ...
    Series series The Medieval World
    This biography of Alfred the Great, king of the West Saxons (871-899), combines a sensitive reading of the primary sources with a careful evaluation of the most recent scholarly research on the history and archaeology of ninth-century England. Alfred emerges from the pages of this biography as a great warlord, an effective and inventive ruler, and a passionate scholar whose piety and intellectual ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Movie Mavens

    US Newspaper Women Take On the Movies, 1914-1923

    by Grace Kingsley, Kitty Kelly, Charlotta Bass, Louella O. Parsons, Esther Hoffman, "The Film Girl", Dorothy Day, Mildred Joclyn, Oma Moody Lawrence0, Mae Tinee1, Janet Flanner2, Genevieve Harris3, Charlotte S. Kelly4, Marjorie Daw5, Virginia Tracy6, Rae McRae7, Virginia Dale8, Harriette Underhill9, Alberta Hartley0 ...
    Series series Women’s Media History Now!
    During the early era of cinema, moviegoers turned to women editors and writers for the latest on everyone's favorite stars, films, and filmmakers. Richard Abel returns these women to film history with an anthology of reviews, articles, and other works. Drawn from newspapers of the time, the selections show how columnists like Kitty Kelly, Mae Tinee, Louella Parsons, and Genevieve Harris wrote ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Aethelred the Unready (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Failed King

    by Richard Abels ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    'Æthelred's reign of nearly thirty-eight years was the longest of any Anglo-Saxon ruler. If he had died in AD 1000, history would have remembered him more kindly'Few monarchs of the Middle Ages have had a worse popular reputation than Æthelred II, 'the Unready', remembered as the king who lost England to Viking invaders. But, as Richard Abels shows, the failure to defend his realm was not entirely ... Read more

    $8.59 USD

  • Our Country/Whose Country?

    Early Westerns and Travel Films as Stories of Settler Colonialism

    by Richard Abel ...
    The concept of settler colonialism offers an invaluable lens to reframe early westerns and travel pictures as re-enactments of the United States' repressed past. Westerns in particular propose a remarkable vision of white settlers' westward expansion that reveals a transformation in what "American Progress" came to mean. Initially, these films tracked settlers moving westward across the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Early Cinema

    Edited by Richard Abel ...
    This encyclopedia presents a wealth of information on early cinema history, with coverage of the techniques and equipment of film production, profiles of the pioneering directors and producers, analysis of individual films and the rapid growth of distinct film genres, and the emergence of something the world had never seen before - the movie star.The work also focuses on how the nature of film ... Read more

    $450.00 USD

  • French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 2

    A History/Anthology, 1907-1939. Volume 2: 1929-1939

    by Richard Abel ...
    These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of Andr Bazin. Richard Abel has devised an organizational scheme of six nearly symmetrical periods that serve to "bite into" the discursive flow of early French writing on the cinema. Each of the periods is discussed in a separate ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Provenance and Early Cinema

    by Camille Blot-Wellens, Germain Lacasse, Grazia Ingravalle, Ian Christie, Noemi Daugaard, Olivia Kristina Stutz, Priska Morrissey, Clara Auclair, Teresa Castro, Anne Sigaud, Ned Thanhouser, Bret Vukoder, Mark Williams, Richard Abel, Patrick Ellis, Allain Daigle, Danielle Crepaldi Carvalho, Martin L. Johnson, Marina Dahlquist, Nadi Tofighian, Gregory A. Waller, André Habib, Ken Eisenstein, Eszter Polonyi, Charles Keil, Christina Stewart, Christina Corfield, Norie Taniguchi, Kim Tomadjoglou, Barbara Flueckiger ...
    Remnants of early films often have a story to tell.As material artifacts, these film fragments are central to cinema history, perhaps more than ever in our digital age of easy copying and sharing. If a digital copy is previewed before preservation or is shared with a researcher outside the purview of a film archive, knowledge about how the artifact was collected, circulated, and repurposed ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Immigrant Publishers

    The Impact of Expatriate Publishers in Britain and America in the 20th Century

    Edited by Richard Abel ...
    In the first third of the twentieth century, the publishing industry in the United Kingdom and the United States was marked by well-established and comfortable traditions pursued by family-dominated firms. The British trade was the preserve of self-satisfied men entirely certain of their superiority in the world of letters; their counterparts in North America were blissfully unaware of development ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1

    A History/Anthology, 1907-1939. Volume 1: 1907-1929

    by Richard Abel ...
    These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of André Bazin. Richard Abel has devised an organizational scheme of six nearly symmetrical periods that serve to "bite into" the discursive flow of early French writing on the cinema. Each of the periods is discussed in a separate ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925

    by Richard Abel ...
    Motor City Movie Culture, 1916–1925 is a broad textured look at Hollywood coming of age in a city with a burgeoning population and complex demographics. Richard Abel investigates the role of local Detroit organizations in producing, distributing, exhibiting, and publicizing films in an effort to make moviegoing part of everyday life. Tapping a wealth of primary source material—from newspapers, ... Read more

    $18.09 USD