Matinee Melodrama : Playing with Formula in the Sound Serial /

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Higgins, Scott, 1968- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Motion picture plays, American.
Film serials.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Scenarios de cinema americains > Histoire et critique.
Films à episodes > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Motion picture plays, American > History and criticism.
Film serials > United States > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Serials, melodrama, and play: why study serials?
  • Storytelling on a schedule: narrative form in the sound serial
  • The serial world
  • Cliffhanging
  • narrative and the art of formula
  • Film style and the art of formula
  • Cliffhanger legacies
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Some sources for sound serials.

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