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Book/Printed Material Film serials and the American cinema, 1910-1940 : operational detection

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Title

  • Film serials and the American cinema, 1910-1940 : operational detection

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.

Names

  • Brasch, Ilka, author.

Created / Published

  • Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
  • ©2018

Headings

  • -  1900-1999
  • -  Film serials--United States--History and criticism
  • -  Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century
  • -  Film serials
  • -  Motion pictures
  • -  United States

Genre

  • Criticism, interpretation, etc
  • History

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (321 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PN1995.9.S3

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020715472

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  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Brasch, Ilka, Author. Film serials and the American cinema, -1940: operational detection. [Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, ©, 2018] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020715472/.

APA citation style:

Brasch, I. (2018) Film serials and the American cinema, -1940: operational detection. [Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, ©] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020715472/.

MLA citation style:

Brasch, Ilka, Author. Film serials and the American cinema, -1940: operational detection. [Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, ©, 2018] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020715472/>.