Richard Abel is Emeritus Professor of International Cinema and Media at the University of Michigan. The most recent of his dozen books is Movie Mavens: US Newspaper Women Take on the Movies, 1914-1923 (2021). His essays have appeared in scores of journals and been translated into five languages. He received the 2014 SCMS Distinguished Career Achievement Award and the 2017 Jean Mitry Award.
"""Settler colonialism is the elephant in the room of American film history. In this meticulously researched book, Richard Abel breathes new life into many cowboy and cowgirl films, 'Indian pictures,' and travel films that no longer exist. Most importantly, Abel rereads these films as settler colonial texts whose white supremacy, both overt and repressed, was naturalized by generic narratives, stars, and imagery that justified the actually occurring violence of Indigenous erasure to film audiences worldwide."" * Jennifer Lynn Peterson, author of Education in the School of Dreams: Travelogues and Early Nonfiction Film *"