Barbara Tepa Lupack

Silent Serial Sensations

The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Filmmakers Ted and Leo Wharton, whose serials became popular in the 1910s, established a model for incremental storytelling and holdover suspense still employed by filmmakers and television producers more than a century later"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mrs. Georgia Adams West
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 149mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781501748189
• ISBN-10: 1501748181
• Artikelnr.: 56970201

Autorenporträt

New York State Public Scholar (2015-2018) and Senior Fellow at the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies (2014 & 2018), Barbara Tepa Lupack is former Professor of English at St. John's University and Wayne State College and academic dean at SUNY. She has written extensively on American film, literature, and culture. Her most recent books on silent film include Early Race Filmmaking in America and the award-winning Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Sensation of the Serial
1. Seeking "Old Opportunity"
2. Taking a Parallel Path
3. Bringing Essanay's "Special Eastern" to Ithaca
4. Taming and Reframing Buffalo Bill
5. Going Independent
6. Exploiting Elaine
7. Extending Elaine
8. Establishing Roots in Renwick Park
9. Unraveling Myra's Mysteries
10. Asking Beatrice
11. Preparing for War
12. Moving into Feature Filmmaking
13. Staring into The Eagle's Eye
14. Leaving Ithaca
15. Heading West