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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Scott HigginsPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.504kg ISBN: 9780813563299ISBN 10: 0813563291 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 26 February 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1 Serials, Melodrama, and Play: Why Study Serials? 2 Storytelling on a Schedule: Narrative Form in the Sound Serial 3 The Serial World 4 Cliffhanging 5 Narrative and the Art of Formula 6 Film Style and the Art of Formula 7 Cliffhanger Legacies Conclusion Appendix: Some Sources for Sound Serials Filmography Notes Selected Bibliography IndexReviewsMatinee Melodrama will transform the study of Hollywood serials. Illustrated by frame stills, and drawing on industrial research, formalist analysis, and game theory, it will soon become a classic. --Steve Neale Exeter University, England Matinee Melodrama will transform the study of Hollywood serials. Illustrated by frame stills, and drawing on industrial research, formalist analysis, and game theory, it will soon become a classic. --Steve Neale Exeter University Scott Higgins offers an incisive and compelling analysis of the Hollywood sound serial as a distinct film genre--the form, story world, and style of which has much to tell us about enduring elements of popular American cinema. --Charles Wolfe University of California, Santa Barbara Matinee Melodrama manages a mean feat: making a mostly forgotten, formulaic format seem new and exciting, shining an informative, fascinating light from film history onto today s television, comics, and videogames. --Jason Mittell author of Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling Matinee Melodrama will transform the study of Hollywood serials. Illustrated by frame stills, and drawing on industrial research, formalist analysis, and game theory, it will soon become a classic. --Steve Neale Exeter University, England -Scott Higgins offers an incisive and compelling analysis of the Hollywood sound serial as a distinct film genre--the form, story world, and style of which has much to tell us about enduring elements of popular American cinema.---Charles Wolfe -University of California, Santa Barbara - -Matinee Melodrama manages a mean feat: making a mostly forgotten, formulaic format seem new and exciting, shining an informative, fascinating light from film history onto today's television, comics, and videogames.---Jason Mittell -author of Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling - -Higgins won me over with his clarity of writing, his high principles of research and observation, and his humor. He understands the through-line from serials to Star Wars, Raiders, and other action-adventure films that followed.---Leonard Maltin -Matinee Melodrama will transform the study of Hollywood serials. Illustrated by frame stills, and drawing on industrial research, formalist analysis, and game theory, it will soon become a classic.---Steve Neale -Exeter University, England - Matinee Melodrama manages a mean feat: making a mostly forgotten, formulaic format seem new and exciting, shining an informative, fascinating light from film history onto today's television, comics, and videogames. --Jason Mittell author of Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling Higgins won me over with his clarity of writing, his high principles of research and observation, and his humor. He understands the through-line from serials to Star Wars, Raiders, and other action-adventure films that followed. --Leonard Maltin Higgins won me over with his clarity of writing, his high principles of research and observation, and his humor. He understands the through-line from serials to Star Wars, Raiders, and other action-adventure films that followed. --Leonard Maltin Matinee Melodrama will transform the study of Hollywood serials. Illustrated by frame stills, and drawing on industrial research, formalist analysis, and game theory, it will soon become a classic. --Steve Neale Exeter University, England Scott Higgins offers an incisive and compelling analysis of the Hollywood sound serial as a distinct film genre--the form, story world, and style of which has much to tell us about enduring elements of popular American cinema. --Charles Wolfe University of California, Santa Barbara (03/11/2015) Author InformationSCOTT HIGGINS is a professor and chair of the College of Film and the Moving Image at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. He is the author of Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow: Color Design in the 1930s and Arnheim for Film and Media Studies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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