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Title Exporting perilous pauline : Pearl White and serial film craze / edited by Marina Dahlquist.

Publication Info. Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource.
Women language
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Women and Film History International
Women and film history international.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents ""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 Stunts""""7 From Pearl White to White Rose Woo: Tracing the Vernacular Body of nÃ?xia in Chinese Silent Cinema""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
Summary 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.
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Subject Motion pictures -- Women -- History.
Motion pictures.
History.
Motion picture industry -- Women.
Motion picture industry.
Film serials -- Women -- History.
Film serials.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Dahlquist, Marina.
Other Form: Print version: Dahlquist, Marina. Exporting Perilous Pauline : Pearl White and Serial Film Craze. Baltimore : University of Illinois Press, ©1900 9780252037689
ISBN 9780252094941 (electronic book)
0252094948 (electronic book)
1299674089 (e-book)
9781299674080 (e-book)
9780252037689 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0252037685 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780252079214 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0252079213 (paperback ; alkaline paper)