In this volume, an international group of leading scholars revisits Rudolf Arnheim's legacy for film and media studies. The contributors bring Arnheim's later work on the visual arts to bear on film and media, while also reassessing the implications of his film theory to help re…
Covering everything from Batman to Zorro's Fighting Legion, Matinee Melodrama is the first scholarly study of the cinematic adventure serial as a distinct artform, one that uniquely encouraged audience participation and imaginative play. It suggests that the serial's incoherent …
Covering everything from Batman to Zorro's Fighting Legion, Matinee Melodrama is the first scholarly study of the cinematic adventure serial as a distinct artform, one that uniquely encouraged audience participation and imaginative play. It suggests that the serial's incoherent …
Long before Batman, Flash Gordon, or the Lone Ranger were the stars of their own TV shows, they had dedicated audiences watching their adventures each week. The difference was that this action took place on the big screen, in short adventure serials whose exciting cliffhangers c…
"Long before Batman, Flash Gordon, or the Lone Ranger were the stars of their own TV shows, they had dedicated audiences watching their advantures in theaters each and every week. The difference was that this action took place on the big screen, in short adventure serials whose …
Covering everything from Batman to Zorro's Fighting Legion, Matinee Melodrama is the first scholarly study of the cinematic adventure serial as a distinct artform, one that uniquely encouraged audience participation and imaginative play. It suggests that the serial's incoherent …