1st Edition
Distributing Silent Film Serials Local Practices, Changing Forms, Cultural Transformation
By Rudmer Canjels
Copyright 2011
284 Pages
24 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
306 Pages
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284 Pages
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Tracing the international consumption, distribution, and cultural importance of silent film serials in the 1910s and 1920s, Canjels provides an exciting new understanding of the cultural dimension and the cultural transformation and circulation of media forms. Specifically, he demonstrates that the serial film form goes far beyond the well-known American two-reel serial—the cliffhanger.... Read more
I. Film Seriality and Its Serial Uses: Transition and Beyond 1. Seriality Unbound 2. Monopolizing Episodic Adventuress II. Localizing Serials: Translating Spectacle and Daily Life Beyond 3. American Mysteries in France 4. German Spectacle from Within 5. Adjusting Seriality in the Netherlands III. Confronting Seriality in Europe and America 6. Consuming New World Views: American Serials in Germany 7. Minds that Cannont Condense: European Serials in America 8. Overshooting inAmerica IV. Another Time 9. Adjusting Forms and Diminishing Uses
Biography
Rudmer Canjels is Lecturer in Comparative Arts and Media Studies at VU University Amsterdam.
