Download or read book The Red Rooster Scare written by Richard Abel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This outstanding work offers a new description of the evolution of American cinema in the nickelodeon period. . . . With his usual groundbreaking research, Abel demonstrates the key role Pathé films played in this transformation. . . . Although clearly of crucial importance to film studies and film history, this treatment of the issues of the rise of nationalism within the cinema should make the work of great interest to historians dealing with modern nationalism and its relation to mass media."—Tom Gunning, author of D. W. Griffith and the Origins of Narrative Film