The American film serial of the 1920s is a particularly underresearched cinematic format.
This article investigates the genre's “time politics” in close regard to its serial structure …

This chapter puts the spotlight on Mark Twain's short story “A Telephonic Conversation,”
originally printed in the Atlantic Monthly in 1880, and a series of advertisements published …

This article strategically resituates scholarly engagement with archival documents within the
media ecology and the epistemic culture that sustains literary and cultural studies, noting …

Discussing print advertisements for the American Telegraph & Telephone Company (AT&T)
published between 1908 and 1920, this chapter highlights how the company sought to place …

The detective plot has always lent itself exemplarily well to serialization. Its logic may
suggest that it is all about the resolution—the quest for an ending; yet a closer look at its …