Film serials and the american cinema, 1910-1940 : operational detection
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978 90 4853 780 8
10.5117/9789462986527
Autor
Brasch, Ilka
Institución
Resumen
The introductory chapter provides the book’s theoretical framework by de-
tailing an anecdotal approach to the study of film history, and it addresses
the shifting definition and function of the anecdote in historiography.
The chapter furthermore introduces concepts of seriality in the context
of nineteenth and twentieth-century modernity and establishes that,
rather than reflecting processes of production and dissemination, serial
narratives themselves activate and propel the processes of serialization
and industrialization that enable their existence. Viewers approached
serials with an awareness of their industrial and commercial character,
and repetition assured their continued popularity across more than four
decades rather than threatening to subdue it.