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The Red Rooster Scare - Making Cinema American, 1900-1910 (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R783
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The Red Rooster Scare - Making Cinema American, 1900-1910 (Paperback, New): Richard Abel

The Red Rooster Scare - Making Cinema American, 1900-1910 (Paperback, New)

Richard Abel

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Only once in cinema history have imported films dominated the American market: during the nickelodeon era in the early years of the twentieth century, when the Pathe company's 'Red Rooster' films could be found 'everywhere.' Through extensive original research, Richard Abel demonstrates how crucial French films were in making 'going to the movies' popular in the United States, first in vaudeville houses and then in nickelodeons. Abel then deftly exposes the consequences of that popularity. He shows how, in the midst of fears about mass immigration and concern that women and children (many of them immigrants) were the principal audience for moving pictures, the nickelodeon became a contested site of Americanization. Pathe's Red Rooster films came to be defined as dangerously 'foreign' and 'alien' and even 'feminine' (especially in relation to 'American' subjects like westerns). Their impact was thwarted, and they were nearly excluded from the market, all in order to ensure that the American cinema would be truly American. "The Red Rooster Scare" offers a revealing and readable cultural history of American cinema's nationalization, by one of the most distinguished historians of early cinema.

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Imprint: University of California Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 1999
First published: March 1999
Authors: Richard Abel
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 328
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-21478-1
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General
LSN: 0-520-21478-1
Barcode: 9780520214781

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