{"product_id":"americanizing-the-movies-and-movie-mad-audiences-1910-1914-0520247434","title":"Americanizing the Movies and \"Movie-Mad\" Audiences, 1910-1914","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0520247434\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Abel, Richard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51928841748768,"sku":"NEW0520247434","price":23.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/americanizing-the-movies-and-movie-mad-audiences-1910-1914-0520247434","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}