Richard Owen Abel (born 1941) is a

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in the

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. He has presented several anthologies of French texts translated in English including

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's first review about '' The Cheat'',

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's critics, and

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's manifesto. He won the

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Award in 1985, 1995 and 2006.Theatre Library Association online

Bibliography

*Abel, Richard ''The Red Rooster Scare: Making Cinema American, 1900-1910'' University of California Press, 1999 *Abel, Richard, ed. ''French Film Theory and Criticism''. Two volumes. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1988. *Abel, Richard, ed. ''French Cinema: The First Wave, 1915-1929'' Princeton: Princeton UP, 1984.

References

1941 births Living people French film critics University of Michigan faculty French male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub