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  • 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 USD

  • 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

    $73.99 USD

  • 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

    $41.99 USD

  • 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

    $43.19 USD

  • 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

    $79.99 USD

  • 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

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $27.99 USD

  • Menus for Movieland

    Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, 1913–1916

    by Richard Abel ...
    At the turn of the past century, the main function of a newspaper was to offer “menus” by which readers could make sense of modern life and imagine how to order their daily lives. Among those menus in the mid-1910s were several that mediated the interests of movie manufacturers, distributors, exhibitors, and the rapidly expanding audience of fans. This writing about the movies arguably played a ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • 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

    $18.99 USD

  • 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

    $68.99 USD

  • 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

  • How Autocrats Subvert Elections

    Resistance to Trump and Trumpism

    by Richard L. Abel ...
    Series series Defending American Democracy
    Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of the response to the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol and Republican efforts to overturn the 2020 election and bias future elections in their favor.In December 2020, Donald Trump invited supporters to DC for what he promised would be a “wild” ... Read more

    $60.99 USD