Richard Abel
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American film critic and professor
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Richard Abel 's Degrees
- PhD Film Studies University of Southern California
- Masters Film Studies University of Southern California
- Bachelors Film Studies University of California, Berkeley
Why Is Richard Abel Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Owen Abel is a professor of Comparative Literature in the University of Michigan, United States. He has presented several anthologies of French texts translated in English including Colette's first review about The Cheat, Louis Delluc's critics, and Marcel L'Herbier's manifesto. He won the Theatre Library Association Award in 1985, 1995 and 2006.
Richard Abel 's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Ciné Goes to Town: French Cinema, 1896-1914 (1994) (94)
- The Red Rooster Scare: Making Cinema American, 1900-1910 (1999) (67)
- The sounds of early cinema (2001) (66)
- French Cinema: The First Wave, 1915-1929 (1984) (59)
- French film theory and criticism : a history/anthology, 1907-1939 (1988) (56)
- Encyclopedia of Early Cinema (2004) (46)
- Scholarly Publishing: Books, Journals, Publishers, and Libraries in the Twentieth Century (2001) (42)
- Immigrant publishers : the impact of expatriate publishers in Britain and America in the 20th century (2009) (33)
- Americanizing the Movies and "Movie-Mad" Audiences, 1910-1914 (2006) (30)
- Book Reviews of The Book Publishing Industry, The Stationers' Company ad the Book Trade 1550-1990, and Beyond Book Issues: The Social Potential of Library Projects (1998) (22)
- Early Cinema and the "National" (2008) (21)
- Menus for Movieland: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture (2015) (18)
- The origin of the library approval plan (1995) (11)
- "History Can Work for You, You Know How to Use It" (2004) (10)
- Scenes from Domestic Life in Early French Cinema (1989) (9)
- Exploring the Discursive Field of the Surrealist Film Scenario Text (1986) (9)
- American Film and the French Literary Avant-Garde (1914-1924) (1976) (8)
- Book Reviews of The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading In An Electronic Age by Sven Birkerts (1996) (8)
- Charge and Countercharge: "Documentary" War Pictures in the USA, 1914–1916 (2011) (7)
- The Contribution of the French Literary Avant-Garde to Film Theory and Criticism (1907-1924) (1975) (7)
- Marshall McLuhan revisited (2001) (7)
- On the Threshold of French Film Theory and Criticism, 1915-1919 (1985) (6)
- Bootning the film business : the historical specificity of early French cinema (1990) (5)
- Setting the pace of a heartbeat: the use of sound elements in European melodramas before 1915 (2001) (5)
- Flickers of Desire: Movie Stars of the 1910s (2011) (4)
- The National Enquiry Into Scholarly Communication—Twenty years after (1999) (3)
- Reading newspapers and writing American silent cinema history (2019) (3)
- Fan Discourse in the Heartland: The Early 1910s (2006) (3)
- Abel Gance's Other Neglected Masterwork: "La Roue" (1922-1923) (1983) (3)
- Book Reviews of My Life in Print, Further Reading, From Trust to Takeover: Butterworths 1938-1967 A Publishing House in Transition, 12 Books That Changed the World (2006) (3)
- Frame Stories for Writing the History of French Silent Cinema (2002) (3)
- Papa Abel Remembers -- The Tale of A Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 16: People, Computers, and Change (2014) (2)
- LAW AND TRADITION (2021) (2)
- The book in the United States today (1997) (2)
- The Influence of St.-John Perse on T. S. Eliot (1973) (2)
- Charge and Counter-Charge: Coherence and Incoherence in Gance's "Napoléon" (1982) (2)
- Opportunities for Women in the Movies (2019) (2)
- The Literature of the Book: History of the book (2003) (2)
- The publisher, the editor and the role of critical rationalism (1999) (1)
- Political correctness run amok: The not-so-subtle censorship of American schoolbooks (2004) (1)
- European Melodramas and World War I: Narrated Time and Historical Time as reflections of National Identity (2008) (1)
- Reflections on the publishing scene The library collection crisis: What is to be done? (1994) (1)
- What really ails the book business and how it could be cured by heeding a philosopher (1998) (1)
- Introduction: The Impact of European Expatriate Bookmen in the Book Trades of Britain and America (2017) (1)
- Some aspects of book translations (1993) (1)
- The Gutenberg revolution : a history of print culture (2017) (1)
- "Pathe Goes to Town": French Films Create a Market for the Nickelodeon (1995) (1)
- The "Much Vexed Problem" of Nontheatrical Distribution in the Late 1910s (2017) (1)
- Flickers of Desire (2011) (1)
- Louis delluc: The critic as cineaste (1976) (1)
- Books that are not being written: A failure in scholarly enterprise (1991) (1)
- Early and Pre-Sound Cinema (2007) (1)
- From Switzerland to Italy and All around the World: The Josef Joye and Davide Turconi Collections (2008) (1)
- Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925 (2020) (1)
- Early Motion Pictures and Popular Print Culture (2011) (1)
- French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1 (1988) (1)
- Papa Abel Remembers -- The Tale of A Band of Booksellers (2013) (1)
- ‘Zip!-Zam!-Zowie!’: A New Take on Institutional American Cinema's History Before 1915 (2009) (1)
- Papa Abel Remembers -- The Tale of a Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 10: Moving The Regional Office (2013) (1)
- The Middleman of the Movies: US Film Exchanges, 1915-1919 (2021) (1)
- The internet: Some unintended consequences (1997) (1)
- The best-seller fishpond invaded, Or, the storming of the best-seller lists by Leviathan (1995) (0)
- Some thoughts on the present state of the book world—I (1997) (0)
- Moving the Minds of Others (2010) (0)
- Edna Vercoe’s Scrapbook "Romance with the Movies" (1914-1915) (2010) (0)
- The strangeness of the present dialectic re. Scholarly journals (1999) (0)
- Papa Abel Remembers -- The Tale of A Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 14: Building and Computers in the Twentieth Century (2014) (0)
- Chapter 4. The “Usable Past” of Civil War Films (2019) (0)
- Papa Abel Remembers-A Tale of A Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 20: Competition (2016) (0)
- The internationalization of the US book trade: The world's rediscovery of America (1996) (0)
- Papa Abel Remembers-The Tale of A Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 12: What's Your Role? Executive or Staff? (2014) (0)
- Making Good Libraries Better (2013) (0)
- Odyssey of a niche publisher: From Japanese maples to Mozart Publishing entrepreneurs (2007) (0)
- Dear LOGOS Readers (2003) (0)
- Reproduction of the species publicator codex (1990) (0)
- Papa Abel Remembers -- The Tale of A Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 4: Two Astonishing Phone Calls (2013) (0)
- Technology 1890–1920 (2018) (0)
- Editorial Board (2012) (0)
- 4. The Transition to a Narrative Cinema, 1904-1907 (1994) (0)
- Marshall McLuhan: "A master of academic grandstanding" (Cause for Debate – 1) (2001) (0)
- People 1890–1920: The Men and Women Who Made French Cinema (2018) (0)
- Zeno’s arrow: Or the reason the oft-described distribution problem of the book trade remains insoluble (1993) (0)
- Papa Abel Remembers -- The Tale of a Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 8: The Birth of the Approved Plan (2013) (0)
- Fiction: An art form or entertainment?(Cause for Debate – 6) (2002) (0)
- Books, food and shelter: An historical study of price and value (1992) (0)
- Occasional Rambles in the World of the Book (2013) (0)
- The internet: The unconsidered premise (1997) (0)
- Notes toward more useful analyses of the impact of the electronic future (1994) (0)
- Speech and respect. Richard Abel (2020) (0)
- Chapter 2. The “Usable Past” of Westerns (2019) (0)
- CHICAGO’S “CENSORED CASUALTIES” AND THE PROVENANCE OF ARCHIVE PRINTS (2021) (0)
- Is Nation a Defining Context for Early Cinema (2006) (0)
- Business 1890–1920 (2018) (0)
- 1. G. M.Anderson: “Broncho Billy” among the Early “Picture Personalities” (2020) (0)
- Papa Abel Remembers -- The Tale of a Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 5: Unconventional Travel (2013) (0)
- Book reviews (1998) (0)
- Papa Abel Remembers -- The Tale of A Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 17: The Theater of Bibliographic Control (2014) (0)
- Book reviews (1997) (0)
- 7.Th E Movies In A “Not So Visible Place”: Des Moines, Iowa, 1911–1914 (2019) (0)
- Entr’acte 4. Another “Forgotten” Part of the Program (2019) (0)
- Factional vs authentic publishing: Where two major works differ (2000) (0)
- Book reviews (1998) (0)
- Papa Abel Remembers -- The Tale of A Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 3: Learning the Sales Call (2013) (0)
- Rothacker Film: "Largest and Best Laboratory in America"? (2021) (0)
- Fiction: An art form or entertainment? (Part II Cause for Debate – 6) (2002) (0)
- Papa Abel Remembers: A Tale of A Band of Booksellers, Fascicle 19: Economic Realities (2016) (0)
- Digging Into Digital Newspapers in a Dark Time (2021) (0)
- 5. Edna Vercoe’s “Romance with the Movies” (2019) (0)
- Scholarly and Trade Publishing [ELIS Classic] (2010) (0)
- An exercise in tracking the role of some of the major players in the book-world in the on-going erosion of the western cultural heritage (1999) (0)
- Book reviews (2000) (0)
- Editorial Board (2011) (0)
- Book reviews (1998) (0)
- Introduction: The Newspaper, a Cultural Partner of the Movies (2019) (0)
- Don Stave -- In Memorium (2016) (0)
- Asa Briggs: A History of Longmans and Their Books, 1724-1990: Longevity in Publishing (2008) (0)
- Papa Abel Remembers -- The Tale of A Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 7: Life After Reed College (2013) (0)
- Keep the state out of publishing (Cause for Debate –3) (2003) (0)
- Chapter 3. The “Usable Past” of Westerns (2019) (0)
- 1912: Movies, Innovative Nostalgia, and Real-Life Threats (2019) (0)
- Entr’acte 3. A “Forgotten” Part of the Program (2019) (0)
- The book world as a high roller or a carny sword-swallower (2000) (0)
- Review: Cahiers du cinéma, 1969-1972: The Politics of Representation by Nick Browne (1991) (0)
- Book Notes (2003) (0)
- : Cahiers du cinema, 1969-1972: The Politics of Representation . Nick Browne. (1991) (0)
- Papa Abel Remembers -- The Tale of a Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 6: 1959 -- A Year of Uncertainty and Turmoil, Followed by Radical Change (2013) (0)
- Reflections on the publishing scene Some thoughts on the present state of the book world—III (1998) (0)
- People 1890–1920 (2018) (0)
- Book Review of The Future of the Book edited by Geoffrey Nunberg (1998) (0)
- Introduction (2017) (0)
- Papa Abel Remembers -- The Tale of A Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 15: Competition! (2014) (0)
- Entr’acte 1. Mapping the Local Terrain of Exhibition (2019) (0)
- Papa Abel Remembers -- The Tale of a Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 13: Financial Considerations and Growth of the Band of Argonauts (2014) (0)
- A seminal book on the transformation of Western culture (review) (2001) (0)
- Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque (review) (2010) (0)
- Book reviews (1999) (0)
- ATG Interviews Alice and Klaus Peters (2013) (0)
- Touting a handful of bobtails deserving short odds in the book trade research sweepstakes (1994) (0)
- Op Ed - Fiddling While Rome Burns (2013) (0)
- Chapter 6. “The Power of Personality in Pictures” (2019) (0)
- George Kleine’s Film Distribution in 1909 (2021) (0)
- Entr’acte 2. Moviegoing Habits and Everyday Life (2019) (0)
- Silent Serial Sensations: The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema (2021) (0)
- Papa Abel Remembers -- The Tale of A Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 18: Costs and Revenues (2016) (0)
- Papa Abel Remembers -- The Tale of a Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 11: Corporate Bibliographic Control Systems (2014) (0)
- 4. “Film Girls” and Their Fans in Front of the Screen (2019) (0)
- Book reviews (1999) (0)
- Papa Abel Remembers -- The Tale of A Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 2: Ready, Set, Go! (2013) (0)
- The new player at the table (1998) (0)
- Some thoughts on the present state of the book world—II (1998) (0)
- 8. GLOBAL CINEMA (2009) (0)
- Papa Abel Remembers -- The Tale of a Band of Booksellers, Fasicle 9: Growing Pains (2013) (0)
- From Peep Show to Picture Palace (2011) (0)
- Book Review of A History of Reading (1997) (0)
- Book Reviews of â–œReading And Reader Developmentâ–, â–œConsortium Purchasing Directoryâ–, and ▜▜The Worldâ–™s Best Booksâ–: Taste, Culture, and The Modern Libraryâ– (2003) (0)
- Wonder Cabinets and Writing Cinema History (2009) (0)
- Measuring the value of Books: A taxonomic approach (1993) (0)
- Memory Work: French Historical Epics, 1926-1927 (2005) (0)
- Utopia, revolution and the publishers' responsibility (2005) (0)
- House Organs and the Detroit Weekly Film News in the 1910s (2015) (0)
- The twilight of provincialism; or, the revitalization of book-selling in North America (1994) (0)
- The Crisis in Libraries (2013) (0)
- Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade (review) (2005) (0)
- The niche website: Key to publisher-author-reader dialogue (2000) (0)
- The presently contrived and convoluted view of censorship (1996) (0)
- Book Reviews of â–œThe Language of Journalism, Volume 1: Newspaper Culture, 2000â–, â–œMacmillan: A Publishing Traditionâ–, â–œPursuit: The Uncensored Memoirs of John Calderâ–, â–œThe Writerâ–™s Handbook 2002â–, â–œThe Child That Books Builtâ–, â–œAbout Books: Five Talks From The Jerusalem Internati (2002) (0)
- Early ethnographic film and the museum (2008) (0)
- Chapter 1. American Variety and/or Foreign Features (2019) (0)
- History as resurrection (1985) (0)
- Letters to the editor (1972) (0)
- Entr’acte 5. Trash Twins (2019) (0)
- Occasional Rambles in the World of the Book -- Books as Entertainment (2013) (0)
- The pursuit of an age-old fancy; or, the resumed advent of the Tower of Cyber-Babel (1996) (0)
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