His French cinema, c1984: t.p. (Richard Abel) pub. info. (Richard Owen Abel; b. 8-20-41; prof., English Dept., Drake Univ., Des Moines, Iowa)

Abel, Richard. Menus for movieland, 2015: ECIP title page (Richard Abel)

University of Michigan website, March 23, 2015: faculty page (Richard Abel has taken a circuitous route to become a historian of silent cinema: an undergraduate student in Forestry and Wildlife Management and then English, a doctoral studient in Comparative Literature, and a partly self-trained scholar of cinema studies and cultural studies. He came to the University of Michigan from Drake University in 2002 as the Robert Altman Collegiate Professor of Film Studies) http://www.lsa.umich.edu/sac/people/ci.abelrichard_ci.detail

Ghostly fragments, 2021: ECIP t.p. (edited by Richard Abel) data view (Richard Owen Abel) galley (Professor Emeritus of International Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Michigan; he has published on French and American silent cinema)