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Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940
Operational Detection
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2018
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Brasch Ilka :
Ilka Brasch is an assistant professor of American Studies at Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany. She was a member of the research unit 'Popular Seriality - Aesthetics and Practice' (Free University Berlin, 2013-2016), and she has presented on film serials at conferences in Germany, the United States, and France. Her most recent article appeared in Screen.
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
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1. Introduction
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2. The Operational Aesthetic
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3. Film Serials Between 1910 and 1940
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4. Detectives, Traces, and Repetition in The Exploits of Elaine
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5. Repetition, Reiteration, and Reenactment: Operational Detection
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6. Sound Serials: Media Contingency in the 1930s
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7. Conclusion : Telefilm, Cross-Media Migration, and the Demise of the Film Serial
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Index of Names
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Index of Film Titles
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Index of Subjects
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Film Culture in Transition
315
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
January 14, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9789048537808
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
336
Illustrations:
27
eBook ISBN:
9789048537808
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
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BY-NC-ND 4.0
