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Matinee Melodrama : Playing with Formula in the Sound Serial /
Long before Batman, Flash Gordon, or the Lone Ranger were the stars of their own TV shows, they had dedicated audiences watching their adventures each week. The difference was that this action took place on the big screen, in short adventure serials whose exciting cliffhangers compelled the young au...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
[2016]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Serials, Melodrama, and Play: Why Study Serials?
- 2. Storytelling on a Schedule: Narrative Form in the Sound Serial
- 3. The Serial World
- 4. Cliffhanging
- 5. Narrative and the Art of Formula
- 6. Film Style and the Art of Formula
- 7. Cliffhanger Legacies
- 8. Conclusion
- Appendix: Some Sources for Sound Serials
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Filmography, 1930-1956
- Index