Modernity Management

Brasch, Ilka; Mayer, Ruth

doi:10.1093/screen/hjw031

Modernity Management

1920s Cinema, Mass Culture and the Film Serial

dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage	302	en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue	3	en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage	315	en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume	57	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Brasch, Ilka
dc.contributor.author	Mayer, Ruth
dc.date.accessioned	2022-07-14T12:25:12Z
dc.date.available	2022-07-14T12:25:12Z
dc.date.issued	2016	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This essay approaches the US cinema of the 1920s from the vantage point of the film serial, exploring the contexts of production, exhibition, distribution and reception that are specific to this format during the decade. As a consequence, it foregrounds how the film serial differs markedly in style and language from the contemporaneous feature films. Both film serials and feature films take up the decade’s discourses of efficiency, seriality and mass culture – but they do so in radically different ways. Focusing specifically on the serial Officer 444 (Francis Ford, 1926), the paper charts how serial structures of production and narration are put to use to enact mass actions on the screen and to fashion mass audiences through this enactment, preparing them for the challenges of modernity along the way.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	10.1093/screen/hjw031
dc.identifier.uri	http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2148
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.relation.issn	0036-9543	en_US
dc.relation.journal	Screen	en_US
dc.rights	L::CC BY-NC 4.0	en_US
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:700	en_US
dc.subject.field	americanstudies	en_US
dc.subject.field	mediastudies	en_US
dc.subject.field	filmstudies	en_US
dc.subject.field	popularculture	en_US
dc.title	Modernity Management	en_US
dc.title.alternative	1920s Cinema, Mass Culture and the Film Serial	en_US
dc.type	article	en_US
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