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Matinee Melodrama : Playing with Formula in the Sound Serial /

Covering everything from Batman to Zorro's Fighting Legion, Matinee Melodrama is the first scholarly study of the cinematic adventure serial as a distinct artform, one that uniquely encouraged audience participation and imaginative play. It suggests that the serial's incoherent plotting an...

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Autor principal: Higgins, Scott, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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