Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925
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Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925

  1. 308 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925

About this book

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 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.

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Information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9780253046451
eBook ISBN
9780253046482
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. Introduction
  8. Entr’Acte 1: The Michigan Film Review
  9. 1. Mapping Circulation in Detroit’s Movie Market
  10. Entr’Acte 2: Detroit Area Picture Theaters
  11. Entr’Acte 3: John H. Kunsky and George W. Trendle
  12. 2. Movies, Live Acts, and the Theatrical Experience: Programming Practices in the Motor City
  13. Entr’Acte 4: Detroit-Made Films
  14. Entr’Acte 5: The Metropolitan Film Company
  15. 3. “Detroit-Made” Newsreels and Other Short Nonfiction Films
  16. Entr’Acte 6: Star Gazing
  17. 4. Motor City Menus for Movie Fans
  18. Afterword
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index
  21. About the Author

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