Exporting Perilous Pauline : Pearl White and serial film craze /
Exporting Perilous Pauline : Pearl White and serial film craze /
edited by Marina Dahlquist.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource.
- Women and Film History International .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Pearl? -- 1 Changing Views and Perspectives: Translating Pearl White�s American Adventures in Wartime France -- 2 “The Best-Known Woman in the World�: Pearl White and the American Serial Film in Sweden -- 3 Pearl, the Swift One, or the Extraordinary Adventures of Pearl White in France -- 4 “The Most Assassinated Woman in the World�: Pearl White and the First Avant-Garde -- 5 Fascinations for the Nation: American Serial Film, Czechoslovakia, and the Afterlives of Pearl 6 Not Quite (Pearl) White: Fearless Nadia, Queen of the Stunts7 From Pearl White to White Rose Woo: Tracing the Vernacular Body of n�xia in Chinese Silent Cinema -- Contributors -- Index
The American action film serials of the 1910s featured exciting stunts, film tricks, and effects set against the background of modern technology, often starring resourceful female heroines who displayed traditionally male qualities such as endurance, strength, and authority. The most renowned of these "serial queens" was Pearl White, whose career as the adventurous character Pauline developed during a transitional phase in the medium. This collection of essays explores the serial genre and its narrative patterns, marketing, and cultural reception, and historiographic importance.
9780252094941
2019716519
016283973 Uk
White, Pearl, 1889-1938 --Criticism and interpretation.
Film serials--History and criticism.--United States
Motion pictures, American--History.--Europe
Electronic Books.
PN2287 / .E976 2013
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Pearl? -- 1 Changing Views and Perspectives: Translating Pearl White�s American Adventures in Wartime France -- 2 “The Best-Known Woman in the World�: Pearl White and the American Serial Film in Sweden -- 3 Pearl, the Swift One, or the Extraordinary Adventures of Pearl White in France -- 4 “The Most Assassinated Woman in the World�: Pearl White and the First Avant-Garde -- 5 Fascinations for the Nation: American Serial Film, Czechoslovakia, and the Afterlives of Pearl 6 Not Quite (Pearl) White: Fearless Nadia, Queen of the Stunts7 From Pearl White to White Rose Woo: Tracing the Vernacular Body of n�xia in Chinese Silent Cinema -- Contributors -- Index
The American action film serials of the 1910s featured exciting stunts, film tricks, and effects set against the background of modern technology, often starring resourceful female heroines who displayed traditionally male qualities such as endurance, strength, and authority. The most renowned of these "serial queens" was Pearl White, whose career as the adventurous character Pauline developed during a transitional phase in the medium. This collection of essays explores the serial genre and its narrative patterns, marketing, and cultural reception, and historiographic importance.
9780252094941
2019716519
016283973 Uk
White, Pearl, 1889-1938 --Criticism and interpretation.
Film serials--History and criticism.--United States
Motion pictures, American--History.--Europe
Electronic Books.
PN2287 / .E976 2013