Exporting Perilous Pauline
            
                Women  Film History International
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780252079214
Description: The American action film serials of the 1910s featured exciting stunts, film tricks, and effects set against the background of modern technology, often starring resourceful female heroines who displayed traditionally male qualities such as endurance, strength, and authority. The most renowned of these "serial queens" was Pearl White, whose career as the adventurous character Pauline developed during a transitional phase in the medium. This collection of essays explores the serial genre and its narrative patterns, marketing, and cultural reception, and historiographic importance.