Exhibitor as Producer

Richard Abel is Professor Emeritus of International Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Michigan, USA. His most recent books include Menus for Movie Land: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, 1913–1916 (2015), Motor City Movie Culture, 1916–1925 (2020), and Our Country/Whose Country?: Early Westerns and Travel Films as Stories of Settler Colonialism (2023) as well as Barbara C. Hodgdon’s Ghostly Fragments, co-edited with Peter Holland (2021), and the edited collection, Movie Mavens: US Newspaper Women Take on the Movies, 1914–1923 (2021).

• .- Chapter 1. Prelude..- Chapter 2. Early Prologues, 1917-1918..- Chapter 3. Prologue Typologies, 1919-1920..- Chapter 4. Prologues in Profusion, 1921-1922..- Chapter 5. Changes in the Prologues Scene, 1923-1926..- Chapter 6. Prologue Circuits, Design Blueprints, and Debates..- Chapter 7. Epilogue..- Index.