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Mayer, Ruth. "Bits and Pieces: Seriality, Shortness and Dream of the Rarebit Fiend." Film Studies 17. (2017): 16–31. Added by: joachim (11/12/20, 1:10 AM) Last edited by: joachim (11/12/20, 11:57 AM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.7227/FS.17.0002 BibTeX citation key: Mayer2017 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Dream of the Rarebit Fiend", Adaptation, Comic strip, Film adaptation, McCay. Winsor, Modernity, Seriality, USA Creators: Mayer Collection: Film Studies |
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| Attachments | URLs https://www.academ ... the_Rarebit_Fiend_ |
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This article explores the transmedial seriality of Winsor McCay’s newspaper comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (1904–24), tracking the narrative’s evolution from comic to trick film (Edwin S. Porter’s The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend, 1906) and animation (McCay’s own Bug Vaudeville, 1921). In contrast to large parts of the critical response to McCay’s work, this article does not fore ground the subversive and disruptive dimension of the Rarebit narratives. Instead, it reads both the graphic and filmic narratives as integral parts of the larger serialised culture of modernity, and as attempts to chart this reality, in order to make it navigable.
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