... In Rio de Janeiro in the latter half of the 1910s, a craze for imported serial films fostered new practices of film consumption, novel conceptions of cinema’s defining characteristics, and fresh ambitions for local film production. The popularity of serial films and their tie-in novelizations...

... seriality paraliterature intermediality World War I ...

... visual culture illustrated press seriality criminality Mexican Revolution ...

... visual culture illustrated press seriality criminality Mexican Revolution ...

... of spectacles of violence in forging public spheres in early twentieth-century Mexico and Brazil, the introduction traces intersections between three distinctly modern, and often interconnected, modes of cultural production: sensationalism, melodrama, and seriality. Observing that sensational cinema emerged...

... This chapter discusses late socialist Eastern European domestic drama serials or “soap operas.” These were developed in the late socialist atmosphere of political and economic thaw, which turned increased attention to women, consumerism, and the family as the microcosm of the socialist nation...

... images of Mexicans in Hollywood films. In the latter half of the decade, El tren fantasma ( The Ghost Train , 1926) and El puño de hierro ( The Iron Fist , 1927), directed by Gabriel García Moreno in Orizaba, Veracruz, reworked the conventions of imported serials to highlight the dark underside...

... socialist TV’s gendered address in terms of scheduling and content, and in terms of women’s participation as TV professionals and viewers. television industry socialism gender feminism audiences This chapter discusses late socialist Eastern European domestic drama serials or “soap operas...