Bits and Pieces
Seriality, Shortness and Dream of the Rarebit Fiend
Abstract
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 foreground 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.
Details
- Organisation(s)
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English Department
- Type
- Article
- Journal
- Film Studies
- Volume
- 17
- Pages
- 16-31
- No. of pages
- 16
- ISSN
- 1469-0314
- Publication date
- 11.2017
- Publication status
- Published
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts
- Electronic version(s)
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https://doi.org/10.7227/FS.17.0002 (Access:
Closed
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Cite
Bits and Pieces: Seriality, Shortness and Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. / Mayer, Ruth.
In: Film Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1, 11.2017, p. 16-31.
In: Film Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1, 11.2017, p. 16-31.
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