{"title":"6. Sound Serials: Media Contingency in the 1930s","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9789048537808-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048537808-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":165714,"journal":{"name":"Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128852386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2. The Operational Aesthetic","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9789048537808-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048537808-003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":165714,"journal":{"name":"Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940","volume":"11 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133041522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Film Culture in Transition","authors":"J. Rosenbaum","doi":"10.1515/9789048505456-046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048505456-046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":165714,"journal":{"name":"Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132897000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"4. Detectives, Traces, and Repetition in The Exploits of Elaine","authors":"Elaine","doi":"10.1515/9789048537808-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048537808-005","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 4 focuses on a single serial, Pathe’s The Exploits of Elaine (1915), which substantiates film serials’ crime fiction heritage, and calls for a critical reflection of the ‘serial-queen melodrama’. The serial features numerous elements that became generic to film serials in later years, such as the detective, scientific gadgets, or the masked villain. It thus benefited from the success of crime fiction in the 1910s but lacked the narrative voice that untangles the mystery. Drawing on Walter Benjamin’s introduction of the detective as a counterpart to the flâneur , the chapter proposes that viewers themselves become detectives as they connect tangentially related anecdotes and identify the mechanics of both the mystery and the narrative, engaging in ‘operational detection’—a mode of film viewing that informs both silent- and sound-era serials.","PeriodicalId":165714,"journal":{"name":"Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122999766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"5. Repetition, Reiteration, and Reenactment: Operational Detection","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9789048537808-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048537808-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":165714,"journal":{"name":"Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125651857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"7. Conclusion : Telefilm, Cross-Media Migration, and the Demise of the Film Serial","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9789048537808-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048537808-008","url":null,"abstract":"The conclusion offers an outlook past the 1940s. It places film serials in the context of the shifting cinema landscape in the 1940s and 1950s and the rise of television. The chapter compares the viewer address of film serials to television’s programming in terms of a ‘segmented flow’ and argues that film serials imagined and practiced a televisual mediality before the advent of TV. Serials and television thus became convergent media, which counters the prevalent notion that television killed film serials. The chapter further stresses the adaptability of the film-serial form to varying exhibition and distribution contexts, which helps to explain their continuous reappearance in the multiple ‘new media’ in the second half of the twentieth century and in the digital culture of the twenty-first century.","PeriodicalId":165714,"journal":{"name":"Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122728844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9789048537808-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048537808-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":165714,"journal":{"name":"Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125170483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1. Introduction","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9789048537808-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048537808-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":165714,"journal":{"name":"Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129473453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3. Film Serials Between 1910 and 1940","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9789048537808-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048537808-004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":165714,"journal":{"name":"Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132006950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}