Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940: Operational Detection

Before television, cinema provided serialized films as weekly entertainment, offering a thriving film culture beyond self-contained features. This book explores the aesthetic appeals, marketing, and exhibition of film serials, adapting the pleasures of crime fiction to serial visual culture and the media-modernity of the early 20th century. It also traces the relationship of film serials to broadcast models, influencing popular culture beyond their demise.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 322 pages
\n Publication date: 12 October 2018
\n Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
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Before the advent of television, cinema provided weekly entertainment through serialized films. This book explores the history, from the silent screen heroines to the daring adventure serials of the sound era. It reveals a thriving film culture beyond the self-contained feature. Through extensive archival research, Ilka Brasch delves into the aesthetic appeals of film serials within their marketing and exhibition contexts. She examines how they adapted the pleasures of crime fiction culture to serial visual culture and the media-modernity of the early 20th century. The study also traces the relationship of film serials to broadcast models of radio and television, demonstrating how they introduced storytelling modes that influenced popular culture even after the serial's decline.

\n Weight: 626g\n
Dimension: 241 x 161 x 25 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9789462986527\n
Edition number: 0\n