...This book explores the historiographic importance, narrative patterns, marketing, and cultural reception of the serial genre through a wider contextualization of the serial phenomenon and its fearless female heroines led by Pearl White, who plays the title character in The Perils of Pauline...

... serial genre from Musidora to Protéa. Gasnier Louis J White Pearl women’s emancipation theme Collier’s Goddard Charles Lam David Marvingt Marie Sadoul Georges The Perils of Pauline Le Petit Journal Andriot Josette Canjels Rudmer Pearl of the Army Protéa series Téramond Guy de World War I...

... how American serial films starring Pearl White and other female stars affected the emerging cinemas in the United States and abroad. The book investigates the serial genre and its narrative patterns, marketing, cultural reception, and historiographic importance, with chapters on Pearl White's life...