Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925 - by Richard Abel (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>1. This book takes a unique look at Detroit's early movie culture, using local and regional archives and newsreels. It gives reads a look at rare primary sources and tells the story of unique neighborhood movie theaters all over the city. <br></p> <p>2. Given Detroit's rapidly expanding population at the time due to the influx of immigrants and migrants drawn to the new auto industry, the book argues that class, race, ethnicity, gender and religious affiliation have particular pertinence to Detroit's movieland culture.<br></p> <p>3. This book demonstrates the research methods developed by Abel, a senior scholar of film history, in his previous work and provides a foundation for others to build upon his scholarship.</p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925</em> 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.</p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>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.</p>--Jeffrey Klenotic "Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Richard Abel is Professor Emeritus of International Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Michigan. He is author of <i>Americanizing the Movies and Movie-Mad Audiences, 1910-1914</i>, and <i>Menus for Movieland: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, 1913-1916</i>, editor of the <i>Encyclopedia of Early Cinema</i>, and co-editor of <i>Early Cinema and the National </i>(IUP, 2008) and <i>The Sounds of Early Cinema </i>(IUP, 2001).</p>
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