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.
23 Ebooks by Richard Abel
Richard Abel: Americanizing the Movies and Movie-Mad Audiences, 1910-1914
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 …
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€38.99
Richard Abel: Menus for Movieland
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 …
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€38.99
Melvyn Stokes & Robert C. Allen: Going to the Movies
This book analyses the diverse historical and geographical circumstances in which audiences have viewed American cinema. It looks at cinema audiences ranging from Manhattan nickelodeons to the modern …
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€31.99
Richard Abel & Giorgio Bertellini: Early Cinema and the "National"
Essays on "how motion pictures in the first two decades of the 20th century constructed ‘communities of nationality’ . . . recommended." -Choice While many studies have been written on …
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€18.75
Richard Abel: The Gutenberg Revolution
One of the most puzzling lapses in accounts of the rise of the West following the decline of the Roman Empire is the casual way historians have dealt with Gutenberg’s invention of printing. The …
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€27.99
Richard Abel: Encyclopedia of Early Cinema
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, …
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€198.52
Richard Abel: Encyclopedia of Early Cinema
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, …
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€247.48
Richard Abel: Encyclopedia of Early Cinema
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, …
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€248.84
Richard Abel: Politics By Other Means
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. …
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€68.54
Richard Abel: Politics By Other Means
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. …
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€68.54
Richard Abel: Gutenberg Revolution
One of the most puzzling lapses in accounts of the rise of the West following the decline of the Roman Empire is the casual way historians have dealt with Gutenberg’s invention of printing. The …
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€57.16
Richard Abel: Gutenberg Revolution
One of the most puzzling lapses in accounts of the rise of the West following the decline of the Roman Empire is the casual way historians have dealt with Gutenberg’s invention of printing. The …
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€56.91
Richard Abel: Immigrant Publishers
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 …
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€54.68
Richard Abel: Immigrant Publishers
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 …
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€54.68
Richard Abel: Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925
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 …
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€18.99
Richard Abel: French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1
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 André Bazin. Richard Abel ha …
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€57.99
Tami Williams & Joshua Yumibe: Provenance and Early Cinema
Remnants of early films often have a story to tell.
As material artifacts, these film fragments are central to cinema history, perhaps more than ever in our digital age of easy copying and sharing. …
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€47.99
Richard Abel: French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 2
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 …
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€57.99
Richard Abel: Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925
A study of how the film industry came to flourish in Detroit in the early years as locals were lured into the new picture theaters. Motor City Movie Culture, 1916–1925 is a broad textured …
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€18.94
Richard Abel: The Cine Goes to Town
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 …
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€59.99
Richard Abel: Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925
A study of how the film industry came to flourish in Detroit in the early years as locals were lured into the new picture theaters. Motor City Movie Culture, 1916–1925 is a broad textured …
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€18.68
Richard Abel: Our Country/Whose Country?
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 …
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€27.14
Richard Abel: Our Country/Whose Country?
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 …
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€27.12
