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42 produkter
Sounds of Early Cinema
Av Richard Abel, Charles (Rick) F. Altman
Häftad, 2001
297 kr
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The Sounds of Early Cinema is devoted exclusively to a little-known, yet absolutely crucial phenomenon: the ubiquitous presence of sound in early cinema. "Silent cinema" may rarely have been silent, but the sheer diversity of sound(s) and sound/image relations characterizing the first 20 years of …
Our Country/Whose Country?
Early Westerns and Travel Films as Stories of Settler Colonialism
Av Richard Abel
Inbunden, 2024
1167 kr
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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 …
Our Country/Whose Country?
Early Westerns and Travel Films as Stories of Settler Colonialism
Av Richard Abel
Häftad, 2024
418 kr
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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 …
Our Country/Whose Country?
Early Westerns and Travel Films as Stories of Settler Colonialism
Av Richard Abel
E-bok, 2023
336 kr
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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 …
Our Country/Whose Country?
Early Westerns and Travel Films as Stories of Settler Colonialism
Av Richard Abel
E-bok, 2023
336 kr
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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 …
Movie Mavens
US Newspaper Women Take on the Movies, 1914-1923
Av Richard Abel
Inbunden, 2021
1235 kr
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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 …
Movie Mavens
US Newspaper Women Take on the Movies, 1914-1923
Av Richard Abel
E-bok, 2021
568 kr
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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 …
Movie Mavens
US Newspaper Women Take on the Movies, 1914-1923
Av Richard Abel
Häftad, 2021
356 kr
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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 …
Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925
Av Richard Abel
Inbunden, 2020
927 kr
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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 …
Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925
Av Richard Abel
Häftad, 2020
424 kr
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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 …
Encyclopedia of Early Cinema
Av Richard Abel
Inbunden, 2004
3781 kr
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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 …
Early Cinema
Av Richard Abel
2013
23118 kr
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Especially over the past thirty years, serious research on early cinema has blossomed as never before. This rapid growth has included the establishment of international organizations such as Domitor (founded in 1987), with its biannual conferences; film festivals such as Le Giorante del cinema muto …
Encyclopedia of Early Cinema
Av Richard Abel
Häftad, 2010
805 kr
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The Encyclopedia of Early Cinema, now in a new paperback edition, is a unique one-volume reference work which explores the first 25 years of cinema's development, from the early 1890s to the mid-1910s. These early years of the history of cinema have lately been the subject of resurgent interest and …
Politics By Other Means
Law in the Struggle Against Apartheid, 1980-1994
Av Richard Abel
Häftad, 1995
848 kr
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Politics by Other Means explores the fundamental question of how law can constrain political power by offering a pathbreaking account of the triumphant final decade of the struggle against apartheid.Richard Abel presents case studies of ten major legal campaigns including: challenges to pass laws; …
Silent Film
Av Richard Abel
Häftad, 1999
755 kr
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This is a collection of essays which focus upon the most important aspects of the silent cinema, opening up parallels with the postmodern cinema of our own times. Subjects discussed include the colour processes, choreograhic styles of acting, sound accompaniment, reception, the development from …
Cine Goes to Town
French Cinema, 1896-1914, Updated and Expanded Edition
Av Richard Abel
Häftad, 1998
585 kr
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Richard Abel's magisterial new book radically rewrites the history of French cinema between 1896 and 1914, particularly during the years when Pathe-Freres, the first major corporation in the new industry, led the world in film production and distribution. Based on extensive investigation of rare …
Red Rooster Scare
Making Cinema American, 1900-1910
Av Richard Abel
Häftad, 1999
306 kr
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Only once in cinema history have imported films dominated the American market: during the nickelodeon era in the early years of the twentieth century, when the Pathe company's 'Red Rooster' films could be found 'everywhere.' Through extensive original research, Richard Abel demonstrates how crucial …
Americanizing the Movies and Movie-Mad Audiences, 1910-1914
Av Richard Abel
Häftad, 2006
315 kr
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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 …
Menus for Movieland
Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, 1913–1916
Av Richard Abel
Inbunden, 2015
913 kr
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At the turn of the past century, the main function of a newspaper was to offer "menus" by which readers could make sense of modern life and imagine how to order their daily lives. Among those menus in the mid-1910s were several that mediated the interests of movie manufacturers, distributors, …
Menus for Movieland
Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, 1913–1916
Av Richard Abel
Häftad, 2015
443 kr
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At the turn of the past century, the main function of a newspaper was to offer "menus" by which readers could make sense of modern life and imagine how to order their daily lives. Among those menus in the mid-1910s were several that mediated the interests of movie manufacturers, distributors, …
Cine Goes to Town
French Cinema, 1896-1914, Updated and Expanded Edition
Av Richard Abel
E-bok, 1998
736 kr
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Richard Abel''s magisterial new book radically rewrites the history of French cinema between 1896 and 1914, particularly during the years when Pathé-Frères, the first major corporation in the new industry, led the world in film production and distribution. Based on extensive investigation of rare …
Americanizing the Movies and Movie-Mad Audiences, 1910-1914
Av Richard Abel
E-bok, 2006
520 kr
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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 …
Menus for Movieland
Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, 1913–1916
Av Richard Abel
E-bok, 2015
520 kr
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At the turn of the past century, the main function of a newspaper was to offer “menus” by which readers could make sense of modern life and imagine how to order their daily lives. Among those menus in the mid-1910s were several that mediated the interests of movie manufacturers, distributors, …
French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1
A History/Anthology, 1907-1939. Volume 1: 1907-1929
Av Richard Abel
Häftad, 1993
552 kr
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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 Andre Bazin. Richard Abel has devised an organizational scheme of six nearly symmetrical periods that serve to "bite into" the …
French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 2
A History/Anthology, 1907-1939. Volume 2: 1929-1939
Av Richard Abel
Häftad, 1993
534 kr
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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 …
Encyclopedia of Early Cinema
Av Richard Abel
E-bok, 2004
4406 kr
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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 …
Encyclopedia of Early Cinema
Av Richard Abel
E-bok, 2004
4503 kr
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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 …
Politics By Other Means
Law in the Struggle Against Apartheid, 1980-1994
Av Richard Abel
E-bok, 2015
1124 kr
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Politics by Other Means explores the fundamental question of how law can constrain political power by offering a pathbreaking account of the triumphant final decade of the struggle against apartheid. Richard Abel presents case studies of ten major legal campaigns including: challenges to pass laws; …
Politics By Other Means
Law in the Struggle Against Apartheid, 1980-1994
Av Richard Abel
E-bok, 2015
1124 kr
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Politics by Other Means explores the fundamental question of how law can constrain political power by offering a pathbreaking account of the triumphant final decade of the struggle against apartheid. Richard Abel presents case studies of ten major legal campaigns including: challenges to pass laws; …
Immigrant Publishers
The Impact of Expatriate Publishers in Britain and America in the 20th Century
Av Richard Abel
Häftad, 2017
752 kr
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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 …
