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By Marina Dahlquist

ISBN-10: 0252037685

ISBN-13: 9780252037689

Exceptionally renowned in the course of their time, the astounding American motion movie serials of the 1910s featured interesting stunts, movie methods, and results set opposed to the heritage of recent know-how, usually starring imaginitive woman heroines who displayed typically male characteristics comparable to patience, energy, and authority. the main well known of those "serial queens" was once Pearl White, whose profession because the adventurous personality Pauline built in the course of a transitional section within the medium's evolving creation concepts, distribution and advertisements styles, and fan tradition. during this quantity, a global team of students explores how American serials starring Pearl White and different woman stars impacted the rising cinemas within the usa and in a foreign country. participants examine the serial style and its narrative styles, advertising, and cultural reception, and historiographic significance, with essays on Pearl White's existence off and on the display in addition to the "serial queen" style in Western and japanese Europe, India, and China.
 
Contributors are Weihong Bao, Rudmer Canjels, Marina Dahlquist, Monica Dall'Asta, Kevin B. Johnson, Christina Petersen, and Rosie Thomas.


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Exporting the American Film,” Motography 6, no. 2 (August 1911): 90. indd 22 4/25/13 2:56 PM Introduction 77. Ibid. 78. W. Stephen Bush, “Charles Pathe’s Views,” Moving Picture World 19, no. 4 (January 24, 1914): 390–91. 79. Ibid. 80. “Brevities of the Business,” Motography 12, no. 6 (August 8, 1914): 215. 81. Lahue, Bound and Gagged, 105. 82. “Exporting the American Film,” Motography 6, no. 2 (August 1911): 90. 83. Roland Robertson, Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture (London: Sage, 1992); “Globalisation or Glocalisation,” Journal of International Communication 1, no.

16. “Pearl White’s Message to Our Boys,” unsigned article in New York Star, December 26, 1917, 78. 17. Ben Singer, “Female Power in the Serial-Queen Melodrama: The Etiology of an Anomaly,” Camera Obscura 8, no. 1 (1990): 90–129; Singer, Melodrama and Modernity, 14. 18. Singer, Melodrama and Modernity, 223. 19. Hallett, “Based on a True Story,” 185. 20. Eclectic Film Company’s advertisement in Motography 11, no. 7 (April 4, 1914): 5. 21. Richard Abel, Americanizing the Movies and “Movie-Mad” Audiences: 1910–1914 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), 215–56.

81. Lahue, Bound and Gagged, 105. 82. “Exporting the American Film,” Motography 6, no. 2 (August 1911): 90. 83. Roland Robertson, Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture (London: Sage, 1992); “Globalisation or Glocalisation,” Journal of International Communication 1, no. 1 (1994); Roland Robertson and Kathleen E. , Globalization: Critical Concepts in Sociology, 6 vols. (London: Routledge, 2003); Miriam Hansen, “The Mass Production of the Senses: Classical Cinema as Vernacular Modernism,” Reinventing Film Studies, ed.

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