(Download) [e-gramatas] Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-
1925
By Richard Abel
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
