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Author:   Richard Abel
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780520286788

ISBN 10:   0520286782
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   01 September 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments PROLOGUE Document: ""Tomorrow's Sunday Tribune"" INTRODUCTION: THE NEWSPAPER, A CULTURAL PARTNER OF THE MOVIES Document: ""Best Film Ad Medium"" 1. THE INDUSTRY GOES TO TOWN (AND COUNTRY) ENTR'ACTE: LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWSREELS Document: ""Right Off the Reel!"" 2. ""NEWSPAPERS MAKE PICTURE-GOERS"" ENTR'ACTE: NEWSPAPER MOVIE CONTESTS Document: ""The Movies"" 3. ""IN MOVIE LAND, WITH THE FILM STARS"" ENTR'ACTE: CARTOONS AND COMIC STRIPS Document: ""Close Ups Are Very Important"" 4. ""FILM GIRLS"" AND THEIR FANS IN FRONT OF THE SCREEN Document: Kitty Kelly ad ENTR'ACTE: MOTION PICTURE WEEKLIES Document: ""Today's Best Moving Picture Story"" 5. EDNA VERCOE'S ""ROMANCE WITH THE MOVIES"" AFTERWORD Appendix: U. S. Newspapers Newspaper Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index"

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Fascinating and original. -- Martin Rubin Washington Times

"""Fascinating and original."" -- Martin Rubin Washington Times"

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"Richard Abel is Emeritus Professor of International Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Red Rooster Scare: Making Cinema American, 1900--1910,Encyclopedia of Early Cinema, Americanizing the Movies and ""Movie-Mad"" Audiences, 1910--1914, and Early Cinema, among other books."

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