Americanizing the Movies and Movie-Mad Audiences, 1910-1914 - Paperbackby Richard Abel (Author) This engaging, deeply researched study provides the richest and most nuanced picture we have to date of cinema both movies and movie going in the early 1910s. At the same time, it makes clear the profound relationship between early cinema and the construction of a national identity in this important transitional period in the United States. Richard Abel looks closely at sensational melodramas, including westerns (cowboy,