{"product_id":"the-cine-goes-to-town-french-cinema-1896-1914-updated-and-expanded-edition-paperback","title":"The Cine Goes to Town: French Cinema, 1896-1914, Updated and Expanded Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Abel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Abel's magisterial new book radically rewrites the history of French cinema between 1896 and 1914, particularly during the years when Pathé-Frères, the first major corporation in the new industry, led the world in film production and distribution. Based on extensive investigation of rare archival films and documents, and drawing on recent social and cultural histories of turn-of-the-century France and the United States, his book provides new insights into the earliest history of the cinema.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbel tells how early French film entertainment changed from a cinema of attractions to the narrative format that Hollywood would so successfully exploit. He describes the popular genres of the era-comic chases, trick films and \u003ci\u003eféeries\u003c\/i\u003e, historical and biblical stories, family melodramas and grand guignol tales, crime and detective films-and shows the shift from short subjects to feature-length films. Cinema venues evolved along with the films as live music, color effects, and other new exhibiting techniques and practices drew larger and larger audiences. Abel explores the ways these early films mapped significant differences in French social life, helping to produce thoroughly bourgeois citizens for Third Republic France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ciné Goes to Town\u003c\/i\u003e recovers early French cinema's unique contribution to the development of the mass culture industry. As the one-hundredth anniversary of cinema approaches, this compelling demonstration of film's role in the formation of social and national identity will attract a wide audience of film scholars, social and cultural historians, and film enthusiasts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Abel\u003c\/b\u003e is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of English at Drake University. His books include \u003ci\u003eFrench Cinema: The First Wave, 1915-1929\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), winner of the Theatre Library Association Award, and \u003ci\u003eFrench Film Theory and Criticism: A History\/Anthology, 1907-1939\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), winner of the Jay Leyda Prize in Cinema Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 574\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.37 x 9.99 x 7.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723929882687,"sku":"9780520079366","price":86.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e93b3e3dc003c79229a62e1edfb20f3a.webp?v=1765100867","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/the-cine-goes-to-town-french-cinema-1896-1914-updated-and-expanded-edition-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}