Film serials and the American cinema, 1910-1940 : operational detection / Ilka Brasch.
"Before the advent of television, cinema offered serialised films as a source of weekly entertainment. This book traces the history from the days of silent screen heroines to the sound era's daring adventure serials, unearthing a thriving film culture beyond the self-contained feature. Thr...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Film culture in transition.
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access Access via Directory of Open Access Books |
| Summary: | "Before the advent of television, cinema offered serialised films as a source of weekly entertainment. This book traces the history from the days of silent screen heroines to the sound era's daring adventure serials, unearthing a thriving film culture beyond the self-contained feature. Through extensive archival research, Ilka Brasch details the aesthetic appeals of film serials within their context of marketing and exhibition and that they adapt the pleasures of a flourishing crime fiction culture to both serialised visual culture and the affordances of the media-modernity of the early 20th century. The study furthermore traces how film serials brought the broadcast model of radio and television to the big screen and thereby introduced models of serial storytelling that informed popular culture even beyond the serial's demise."--Publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (321 pages : illustrations) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789048537808 9048537800 9789462986527 |