Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925

Richard Abel is Professor Emeritus of International Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Michigan. He is author of Americanizing the Movies and "Movie-Mad" Audiences, 1910-1914, and Menus for Movieland: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, 1913-1916, editor of the Encyclopedia of Early Cinema, and co-editor of Early Cinema and the "National" (IUP, 2008) and The Sounds of Early Cinema (IUP, 2001).

• AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionEntr'Acte 1: The Michigan Film Review1. Mapping Circulation in Detroit's Movie MarketEntr'Acte 2: Detroit Area Picture TheatersEntr'Acte 3: John H. Kunsky and George W. Trendle2. Movies, Live Acts, and the Theatrical Experience: Programming Practices in the Motor CityEntr'Acte 4: Detroit-Made FilmsEntr'Acte 5: The Metropolitan Film Company3. "Detroit-Made" Newsreels and Other Short Nonfiction FilmsEntr'Acte 6: Star Gazing4. Motor City Newspapers, Menus for Movie FansAfterwordBibliographyIndex

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.- Jeffrey Klenotic (Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film) No historian better understands the importance of newspapers to the formation of American movie culture than Richard Abel, and none has put newspaper research to better effect.- Mark Lynn Anderson (Michigan Historical Review)