Richard Abel is a professor emeritus of international cinema and media studies at the University of Michigan. His recent books include Menus for Movie Land: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, 1913-1916, and Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925. He is also the coeditor of Barbara C. Hodgdon’s writings, Ghostly Fragmentsand the 2017 winner of the Jean Mitry Award.
"Juxtaposing biographical information found through archival
research with samples of film criticism transcribed from local
papers, Abel throws a much-needed light on the female columnists
who originally mediated the pictures for a mass audience
increasingly defined by young women and girls." --Nineteenth
Century Theatre and Film
"With a scholar's knack for detail, Abel provides context for this
crucial period of cinema history. An illuminating combination of
scholarship and nostalgia." --Library Journal
"A revelation! From snarky hard-talking dames to tartly respectable
scholars, Movie Mavens recovers the diverse and compelling voices
of the legions of newspaperwomen who wrote about movies during the
tumultuous 1910s and early 1920s. An invaluable resource from a
model film historian."--Laura Horak, author of Girls Will Be Boys:
Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
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