Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925

Perhaps foremost among these insights is the book's powerful reminder that movie theatres during this period were environments for a rich multimedia and intermedial experience where performers on stage were just as important as those on the screen. This work will be of great value to students and scholars of silent cinema history, theatre history, urban history and Detroit history, and also has much to offer those interested in the history of newspapers, advertising and promotion.

No historian better understands the importance of newspapers to the formation of American movie culture than Richard Abel, and none has put newspaper research to better effect.