Menus for Movieland: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, 1913-1916

by Richard Abel

Book Overview

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, exhibitors, and the rapidly expanding audience of fans. This writing about the movies arguably played a crucial role in the emergence of American popular film...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520286782
• ISBN13: 9780520286788
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"