Local Practices, Changing Forms, Cultural Transformation
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Köp båda 2 för 2866 krDistributing Silent Film Serials makes a "substantial contribution to new cinema histories," it is filled with "potent points of comparison between different national traditions," giving "fascinating insights," and leading "to a rethinking of the significance of seriality in the broader context of film history."-Joe Kemper, Early Popular Visual Culture "This book provides new insights ino the serial productions of both well-known [such as Abel Gance, Erich von Stroheim or Fritz Lang] and more obscure directors. [] Distributing Silent Film Serials is supplemented by thorough notes, a well-chosen bibliography, and a useful appendix, listing serial films, chronologically arranged under importing country and by earliest known premier date. The text is complemented by many interesting photographs, posters and advertisements []. It is packed [] with interesting anecdotes and solid information, and serves as a welcome addition to the burgeoning body of important literature elucidating the history of silent cinema."- Jeffrey Mifflin, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television "Distributing Silent Film Serials is part of the "important studies of exhibition [that] have recently emerged from what has been called the new cinema history. "- Jessica L. Whitehead, Early Popular Visual Culture
Rudmer Canjels is a film scholar and lecturer interested in silent film, fan culture, transmedia storytelling, and documentary film. He has published on the international distribution and cultural transformations of silent film serials (Distributing Silent Film Serials, Routledge, 2011) and industry sponsored films (A History of Royal Dutch Shell and Films that Work). Currently he is researching the use of industrial film in Nigeria as it became an independent country in 1960.
I. Film Seriality and Its Serial Uses: Transition and Beyond 1. Seriality Unbound 2. Monopolizing Episodic Adventuress II. Localizing Serials: Translating Spectacle and Daily Life 3. American Mysteries in France 4. German Spectacle from Within 5. Adjusting Seriality in the Netherlands III. Confronting Seriality in Europe and America 6. Consuming New World Views: American Serials in Germany 7. Minds that Cannont Condense: European Serials in America 8. Overshooting in America IV. Another Time 9. Adjusting Forms and Diminishing Uses 10. Beyond the Cliffhanger