Distributing silent film serials
Subtitle: local practices, changing forms, cultural transformation
By: Rudmer Canjels
Series: Routledge advances in film studies -- 7; Routledge advances in film studies -- 7.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780415877145
Subjects: Motion pictures; Film serials; Silent films; History and criticism; Distribution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Film seriality and its serial uses : transition and beyond. seriality unbound; title: Monopolizing episodic adventures; title: Localizing serials, translating spectacle and daily life. American mysteries in France; title: German spectacle from within; title: Adjusting seriality in the Netherlands; title: Confronting seriality in Europe and America; title: Consuming new world views : American serials in Germany; title: Minds that cannot condense : European serials in America; title: Another time; title: Overshooting in America; title: Adjusting forms and diminishing uses; title: Beyond the cliffhanger; title: Appendix : overview of imported serial films.