Melodrama and modernity: early sensational cinema and its contexts
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| adam_text | Titel: Melodrama and modernity
Autor: Singer, Ben
Jahr: 2001
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. Meanings of Modernity 17
2. Meanings of Melodrama 37
3. Sensationalism and the World of Urban Modernity 59
4. Making Sense of the Modernity Thesis 101
5. Melodrama and the Consequences of Capitalism 131
6. Ten-Twenty-Thirty Melodrama: Boom and Bust 149
7. Child of Commerce! Bastard of Art! : Early Film Melodrama 189
8. Power and Peril in the Serial-Oueen Melodrama 221
9. Marketing Melodrama: Serials and Intertextuality 263
Conclusion 289
Notes 297
Bibliography 331
Index of Names and Subjects 357
Index of Titles 361
Illustrations
Fig. 3.1 Urban Population Growth in Selected Cities 60
Fig. 3.2 Post Office Square, Boston, 1904 61
Fig. 3.3 Siegel and Coopers department store, New York City, c. 1900 62
Fig. 3.4 42nd and Broadway, New York City, 1898 63
Fig. 3.5 Fig. 3.6 42nd and Broadway, New York City, 1909 Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street, New York City, c. 1900 64 65
Fig. 3.7 Manchester, New Hampshire, 1911 66
Fig. 3.8 Fig. 3.9 Fig. 3.10 Fig. 3.11 Efficiency Saving (?) Time Untitled capitalist cityscape How We Advertise Now 61 68 69 70
Fig. 3.12 A Quiet Sunday in London 71
Fig. 3.13 New York City: Is It Worth It? 72
Fig. 3.14 Fig. 3.15 Broadway?Past and Present Horse Smashed Cable Car Window 73 1A
Fig. 3.16 Trolley Car Hits a Truck . . . 75
Fig. 317 Talking It Over 76
Fig. 3.18 In the Wake of a Cable Car 71
Fig. 3.19 Noon Hour?Broadway 78
Fig. 3.20 The Brooklyn Horror 79
Fig. 3.21 Untitled (death rides on trolley roof) 80
Fig. 3.22 Fig. 3.23 Another Trolley Victim Woman Knocked Down by a Cable Car 81 82
Fig. 3.24 When Unlicensed Drivers Are Abroad 83
Fig. 3.25 The Lives of the Hunted 84
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ist of Illustrations
Fig. 3.26 Life s Guide to the Suburbs?Where to Walk 85
Fig. 3.27 Child Choked by a Transom 85
Fig. 3.28 Perilous Night Work on Sky Scraper 86
Fig. 3.29 Fell Ten Stories to His Death 87
Fig. 3.30 Plunged in Front of an L Train 88
Fig. 3.31 A Falling Man Kills a Boy 89
Fig. 3.32 Water Slide at Sea Lion Park, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1895 92
Fig. 3.33 Bisby s Spiral Airship, Long Beach, Calif., c. 1898 93
Fig. 3.34 A Hundred Ways of Breaking Your Neck 94
Fig. 3.35 Poster for the Double Forward Somersault 95
Fig. 3.36 Poster for The Sisters La Rague daredevil stunt 96
Fig. 4.1 Physiological Response 114
Fig. 4.2 Picturesque America 122
Fig. 5.1 The hag from A Woman in Grey 140
Fig. 5.2 Ruth in peril 141
Fig. 5.3 Publicity still for A Woman in Grey 142
Fig. 5.4 Character relationships in A Woman in Grey 144
Fig. 6.1 Poster illustration for Edna, the Pretty Typewriter 152
Fig. 6.2 Scene from stage production of The Ninety and
Nine 158
Fig. 6.3 Poster for The Ninety and Nine stage production 159
Fig. 6.4 Poster illustration for Lighthouse by the Sea 160
Fig. 6.5 Playwright Owen Davis 162
Fig. 6.6 The Bowery Theatre, New York City, 1878 180
Fig. 6.7 Oliver Twist, stock poster, c. 1870 181
Fig. 6.8 Poster for Blue Jeans, c. 1895 184
Fig. 6.9 Stage production of Blue Jeans, c, 1890 184
Fig. 6.10 Advertisement for film version of Blue Jeans 185
Fig. 7.1 I Will Save You! 191
Fig. 7.2 Publicity still from The Perils of Thunder
Mountain 199
Fig. 7.3 Advertisement for The Diamond from the Sky 201
Fig. 7.4 Trade journal ad for The Fatal Ring 204
Pig 7.5 Clifflianger structure of serial narratives 211
List of Illustrations X)
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Fig. 7.7
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Fig. 9.1
Overlap structure of serial narratives 211
Poster for The New Exploits of Elaine 215
Trade journal ad for A Daughter of Uncle Sam 223
Trade journal ad for The Adventures of Dorothy
Dare 225
Pearl White in Plunder 221
Frame still enlargement from What Happened to
Mary 228
Helen Holmes in The Hazards of Helen 228
Frame still enlargement from A Woman in Grey 229
Publicity still for Pearl of the Army 229
Lobby card for A Lass of the Lumberlands 230
Pearl White in The Romance of Elaine 232
Stop the Car! 234
Publicity still for The Hazards of Helen 235
Publicity still for The Hazards of Helen 236
Publicity still for The Hazards of Helen 237
Publicity still for The Hazards of Helen 237
Charles Dana Gibson, One of the
Disadvantages... 243
Stock poster for Under the Gaslight 244
Poster for the stage melodrama My Tom-Boy Girl 245
Burglars Are Pie for Her 247
Saved Two Men from an Angry Lion 248
Kate Swan at a Dizzy Height 250
A Woman s Wild Ride Down a Mountain 251
Advertisement for The Perils of Our Girl Reporters 252
Frame still enlargements for A Woman in Grey 254
Stock poster for Colleen Bawn 257
Frame still enlargement from The Perils of Pauline 258
Publicity still for The Perils of Pauline 259
Publicity still for Plunder 260
A Typical Scene on the Bowery 261
Billboard for The Perils of Pauline 266
List of Illustrations
Fig. 9.2
Fig. 9.3
Fig. 9.4
Fig. 9.5
Fig. 9.6
Fig. 97
Fig. 98
Fig. 9.9
Aesthetic U.S.A.?Being a Panorama of
Approach . . . 266
Front cover for The Motion Picture Story Magazine 271
Fiction tie-in for The Iron Strain 272
Front cover for Moving Picture Stories 21A
Tie-in for Love Versus Genius 275
Advertisement for Pathe-Hearst collaboration 276
Fiction tie-in for The Perils of Pauline 277
Trade journal advertisement for Les Vampires 280
Fig. 9-10 Fiction tie-in for Zudora 282
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