Silent Serial Sensations - The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema

"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"--

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

"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"--

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Tepa Lupack
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781501748189
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-4818-9
• No. of pages: 408
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; einzelne Künstler, Künstlermonografien, Amerikanische Geschichte, USA Nordosten, Mid-Atlantic States, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, Pop Arts / Pop Culture, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA), PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director (see also BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts)