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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 the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dahlquist, Marina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
Colección:Women and film history international.
Temas:
White, Pearl, > 1889-1938 > Criticism and interpretation.
White, Pearl, > 1889-1938
Film serials > United States > History and criticism.
Motion pictures, American > Europe > History.
Films à épisodes > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Cinéma américain > Europe > Histoire.
ART > Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Film serials
Motion pictures, American
Europe
United States
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Why Pearl?
  • 1 Changing Views and Perspectives: Translating Pearl Whiteâ€?s American Adventures in Wartime France
  • 2 “The Best-Known Woman in the Worldâ€?: Pearl White and the American Serial Film in Sweden
  • 3 Pearl, the Swift One, or the Extraordinary Adventures of Pearl White in France
  • 4 “The Most Assassinated Woman in the Worldâ€?: Pearl White and the First Avant-Garde
  • 5 Fascinations for the Nation: American Serial Film, Czechoslovakia, and the Afterlives of Pearl
  • 6 Not Quite (Pearl) White: Fearless Nadia, Queen of the Stunts7 From Pearl White to White Rose Woo: Tracing the Vernacular Body of nÃ?xia in Chinese Silent Cinema
  • Contributors
  • Index

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