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Silent Serial Sensations : The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema /

"Filmmakers Ted and Leo Wharton, whose serials became popular in the 1910s, established a model for incremental storytelling and holdover suspense still employed by filmmakers and television producers more than a century later"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lupack, Barbara Tepa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the sensation of the serial
  • Seeking "old opportunity"
  • Taking a parallel path
  • Bringing Essanay's "Special Eastern" to Ithaca
  • Taming and reframing Buffalo Bill
  • Going independent
  • Exploiting Elaine
  • Extending Elaine
  • Establishing roots in Renwick Park
  • Unraveling Myra's mysteries
  • Asking Beatrice
  • Preparing for war
  • Moving into feature filmmaking
  • Staring into the eagle's eye
  • Leaving Ithaca
  • Heading west.