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L Guevarra <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:41:00 -0700
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Dear Screen-L:


The University of California Press is pleased to announce the publication of:

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

Richard Abel is the Robert Altman Collegiate
Professor of Film Studies at the University of
Michigan. He is the author of _Encyclopedia of
Early Cinema, The Red Rooster Scare: Making
Cinema American_ (UC Press), and _The Ciné Goes
to Town_ (UC Press), among other books.

http://go.ucpress.edu/Abel

"Like all of Richard Abel's previous works, this
book is characterized by careful marshalling of
data and the exploration of new sources. There is
a wealth of extremely important, instructive
information, and the book provides an
encyclopedic treatment of film exhibition in the
early 1910s and the key film genres of the
period. This will be an important book for film
studies."-Lea Jacobs, University of Wisconsin,
Madison

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.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.

Full information about the bookis available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/Abel

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