Exporting Perilous Pauline: Pearl White and Serial Film Craze

by Marina Dahlquist

Exceptionally popular during their time, the spectacular American action film serials of the 1910s featured exciting stunts, film tricks, and effects set against the background of modern technology, often starring resourceful female heroines who displayed traditionally male qualities such as endurance, strength, and authority. The most renowned of these "serial queens" was Pearl White, whose career as the adventurous character Pauline developed during...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252079213
• ISBN13: 9780252079214
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"