Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925

AvRichard Abel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

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, spatiotemporal maps, and city directories to rare trade journals, theater programs, and local newsreels—Abel shows how entrepreneurs worked to lure moviegoers from Detroit's diverse ethnic neighborhoods into the theaters. Covering topics such as distribution, programming practices, nonfiction film, and movie coverage in local newspapers, with entr'actes that dive deeper into the roles of key individuals and organizations, this book examines how efforts in regional metropolitan cities like Detroit worked alongside California studios and New York head offices to bolster a mass culture of moviegoing in the United States.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-01-21
Mått:156 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt:649 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Indiana University Press (IPS)
Antal sidor:308
Förlag:Indiana University Press
ISBN:9780253046451

Utforska kategorier

Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Richard Abel is Professor Emeritus of International Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Michigan. He is author of Americanizing the Movies and "Movie-Mad" Audiences, 1910-1914, and Menus for Movieland: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, 1913-1916, editor of the Encyclopedia of Early Cinema, and co-editor of Early Cinema and the "National" (IUP, 2008) and The Sounds of Early Cinema (IUP, 2001).

Recensioner i media

Perhaps foremost among these insights is the book's powerful reminder that movie theatres during this period were environments for a rich multimedia and intermedial experience where performers on stage were just as important as those on the screen. This work will be of great value to students and scholars of silent cinema history, theatre history, urban history and Detroit history, and also has much to offer those interested in the history of newspapers, advertising and promotion.- Jeffrey Klenotic (Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film) No historian better understands the importance of newspapers to the formation of American movie culture than Richard Abel, and none has put newspaper research to better effect.- Mark Lynn Anderson (Michigan Historical Review)

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionEntr'Acte 1: The Michigan Film Review1. Mapping Circulation in Detroit's Movie MarketEntr'Acte 2: Detroit Area Picture TheatersEntr'Acte 3: John H. Kunsky and George W. Trendle2. Movies, Live Acts, and the Theatrical Experience: Programming Practices in the Motor CityEntr'Acte 4: Detroit-Made FilmsEntr'Acte 5: The Metropolitan Film Company3. "Detroit-Made" Newsreels and Other Short Nonfiction FilmsEntr'Acte 6: Star Gazing4. Motor City Newspapers, Menus for Movie FansAfterwordBibliographyIndex