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  • The Exhibitor as Producer

    Stage Prologues in American Movie Theatres, 1917-1926

    by Richard Abel ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book seeks answers to a series of questions about the little studied subject of prologues or theatrical presentations in American movie theaters from the late 1910s to the mid-1920s. How did prologues emerge out of prior practices? Who were the exhibitors most involved? What characteristics would come to define prologues? How widespread did they become not only in metropolitan ... Read more

    Free

  • Aethelred the Unready (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Failed King

    by Richard Abels ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    'Æthelred's reign of nearly thirty-eight years was the longest of any Anglo-Saxon ruler. If he had died in AD 1000, history would have remembered him more kindly'Few monarchs of the Middle Ages have had a worse popular reputation than Æthelred II, 'the Unready', remembered as the king who lost England to Viking invaders. But, as Richard Abels shows, the failure to defend his realm was not entirely ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Alfred the Great

    War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England

    by Richard Abels ...
    Series series The Medieval World
    This biography of Alfred the Great, king of the West Saxons (871-899), combines a sensitive reading of the primary sources with a careful evaluation of the most recent scholarly research on the history and archaeology of ninth-century England. Alfred emerges from the pages of this biography as a great warlord, an effective and inventive ruler, and a passionate scholar whose piety and intellectual ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Law's Trials

    The Performance of Legal Institutions in the US 'War on Terror'

    by Richard L. Abel ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    The US 'war on terror' has repeatedly violated fundamental rule of law values. When executive and legislature commit such egregious wrongs, courts represent the ultimate defense. Law's Trials: The Performance of Legal Institutions in the US 'War on Terror' offers the first comprehensive account of judicial performance during the sixteen years of the Bush and Obama administrations. Abel examines ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Law's Wars

    The Fate of the Rule of Law in the US 'War on Terror'

    by Richard L. Abel ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    The US 'war on terror', which Bush declared and Obama continued, repeatedly violated fundamental rule of law values. Law's Wars: The Fate of the Rule of Law in the US 'War on Terror' is the first comprehensive account of efforts to resist and correct those violations. It focuses on responses to abuses in Abu Ghraib, efforts by Guantánamo Bay detainees to improve conditions of confinement in and ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Our Country/Whose Country?

    Early Westerns and Travel Films as Stories of Settler Colonialism

    by Richard Abel ...
    The concept of settler colonialism offers an invaluable lens to reframe early westerns and travel pictures as re-enactments of the United States' repressed past. Westerns in particular propose a remarkable vision of white settlers' westward expansion that reveals a transformation in what "American Progress" came to mean. Initially, these films tracked settlers moving westward across the ... Read more

    $37.19 CAD

  • 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, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Gutenberg Revolution

    A History of Print Culture

    by Richard Abel ...
    One of the most puzzling lapses in accounts of the rise of the West following the decline of the Roman Empire is the casual way historians have dealt with Gutenberg's invention of printing. The cultural achievements that followed the fifteenth century, when the West moved from relative backwardness to remarkable, robust cultural achievement, would have been impossible without Gutenberg's gift and ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Motor City Movie Culture, 1916–1925

    by Richard Abel ...
    A study of how the film industry came to flourish in Detroit in the early years as locals were lured into the new picture theaters.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 ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 2

    A History/Anthology, 1907-1939. Volume 2: 1929-1939

    by Richard Abel ...
    These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of Andr Bazin. Richard Abel has devised an organizational scheme of six nearly symmetrical periods that serve to "bite into" the discursive flow of early French writing on the cinema. Each of the periods is discussed in a separate ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1

    A History/Anthology, 1907-1939. Volume 1: 1907-1929

    by Richard Abel ...
    These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of André Bazin. Richard Abel has devised an organizational scheme of six nearly symmetrical periods that serve to "bite into" the discursive flow of early French writing on the cinema. Each of the periods is discussed in a separate ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Politics By Other Means

    Law in the Struggle Against Apartheid, 1980-1994

    by Richard Abel ...
    Politics by Other Means explores the fundamental question of how law can constrain political power by offering a pathbreaking account of the triumphant final decade of the struggle against apartheid.Richard Abel presents case studies of ten major legal campaigns including: challenges to pass laws; black trade union demands for recognition; state terror; censorship; resistance to the "independent" ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD