Film serials and the American cinema, 1910-1940

Operational detection

verfasst von
Ilka Brasch
Abstract

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

Organisationseinheit(en)
Englisches Seminar
Typ
Monografie
Anzahl der Seiten
330
Publikationsdatum
2018
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed
Ja
Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung
SDG 16 – Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen
Elektronische Version(en)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv7xbs29 (Zugang: Offen)