ORPP logo
Image from Google Jackets

Exporting Perilous Pauline : Pearl White and Serial Film Craze.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Women's Media History Now! SeriesPublisher: Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252094941
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Exporting Perilous PaulineDDC classification:
  • 791.4302/8092
LOC classification:
  • PN2287
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Pearl? -- 1 Changing Views and Perspectives: Translating Pearl White's American Adventures in Wartime France -- 2 "The Best-Known Woman in the World": Pearl White and the American Serial Film in Sweden -- 3 Pearl, the Swift One, or the Extraordinary Adventures of Pearl White in France -- 4 "The Most Assassinated Woman in the World": Pearl White and the First Avant-Garde -- 5 Fascinations for the Nation: American Serial Film, Czechoslovakia, and the Afterlives of Pearl -- 6 Not Quite (Pearl) White: Fearless Nadia, Queen of the Stunts -- 7 From Pearl White to White Rose Woo: Tracing the Vernacular Body of nüxia in Chinese Silent Cinema -- Contributors -- Index.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Pearl? -- 1 Changing Views and Perspectives: Translating Pearl White's American Adventures in Wartime France -- 2 "The Best-Known Woman in the World": Pearl White and the American Serial Film in Sweden -- 3 Pearl, the Swift One, or the Extraordinary Adventures of Pearl White in France -- 4 "The Most Assassinated Woman in the World": Pearl White and the First Avant-Garde -- 5 Fascinations for the Nation: American Serial Film, Czechoslovakia, and the Afterlives of Pearl -- 6 Not Quite (Pearl) White: Fearless Nadia, Queen of the Stunts -- 7 From Pearl White to White Rose Woo: Tracing the Vernacular Body of nüxia in Chinese Silent Cinema -- Contributors -- Index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

© 2024 Resource Centre. All rights reserved.