Book ID: CBB442254107

Silent serial sensations: The Wharton brothers and the magic of early cinema (2020)

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Lupack, Barbara Tepa (Author)


Cornell University Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 384
Language: English

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. (Publisher)

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Review J. P. Telotte (October 2020) Review of "Silent serial sensations: The Wharton brothers and the magic of early cinema". Technology and Culture (pp. 1231-1233). unapi

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