| Description |
1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations, tables |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Mutual Friends: The Development of the Mass Serial; Nineteenth-Century Readers of Serial Fiction; Case Study: Our Mutual Friend; Reviewers as Readers; There was no such thing as I: The Narrative Preoccupations of Serial Fiction; 2 Terry's Expert Readers: The Rise of the Continuity Comic; Streamline your mind: Comic Strip Production in the Age of Ford and Taylor; Case Study: Terry and the Pirates; Active Readers and Comic Agendas; Comic Ideologies: Pinup Girls and Screwy Chinese -- The Decline of the Serial Strip |
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3 The Future of the Serial FormAudiences and Soap Opera Production; Knowledge and Power: Soap Narrative Strategies; Audiences and Power; Case Study: Redeeming the Rapist; Humor, Irony, and Self-Reflexivity; Tune In Tomorrow; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
""To be continued ... "" Whether these words fall at a season-ending episode of Star Trek or a TV commercial flirtation between coffee-loving neighbors, true fans find them impossible to resist. Ever since the 1830s, when Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers enticed a mass market for fiction, the serial has been a popular means of snaring avid audiences. Jennifer Hayward establishes serial fiction as a distinct genre -- one defined by the activities of its audience rather than by the formal qualities of the text. Ranging from installment novels, mysteries, and detective fiction of the 1800s to t |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Television series -- History
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Serialized fiction -- History and criticism
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Authors and readers -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Authors and readers
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Serialized fiction
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Television series
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813149639 |
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0813149630 |
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0813170028 |
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9780813170022 |
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0813184479 |
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9780813184470 |
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