Bits and Pieces

Seriality, Shortness and Dream of the Rarebit Fiend

verfasst von

Ruth Mayer

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.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Englisches Seminar

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Film Studies

Band

17

Seiten

16-31

Anzahl der Seiten

16

ISSN

1469-0314

Publikationsdatum

09.2017

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Bildende und darstellende Künste

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.7227/FS.17.0002 (Zugang: Geschlossen)