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Author Canjels, Rudmer, 1974-

Title Distributing Silent Film Serials : Local Practices, Changing Forms, Cultural Transformation
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (284 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Film Seriality and Its Serial Uses: Transition and Beyond; Introduction to Part I; 1 Seriality Unbound; 2 Monopolizing Episodic Adventures; Part II: Localizing Serials, Translating Spectacle and Daily Life; Introduction to Part II; 3 American Mysteries in France; 4 German Spectacle From Within; 5 Adjusting Seriality in the Netherlands; Part III: Confronting Seriality in Europe and America; Introduction to Part III; 6 Consuming New World Views: American Serials in Germany
Summary 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. Throughout the book, Canjels focuses on the biggest producers of serials, America, France, and Germany, while imported serials, such as those in the Netherlands, are also examined. This research offers new
Notes Based on print version record
Subject Film serials -- Europe -- History and criticism
Film serials -- United States -- History and criticism
Silent films -- Europe -- History and criticism
Silent films -- United States -- History and criticism
Motion pictures -- Distribution.
Film serials
Motion pictures -- Distribution
Silent films
Europe
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203832585
0203832582