Transnational Fantômas: The Influence of Feuillade’s Series on International Cinema during the 1910s

This paper analyzes the international distribution of Louis Feuillade’s adaptations of Fantômas novels and their large influence on foreign cinemas. It emphases the global success of Feuillade’s films, as well as the unevenness characterising their reception and assimilation by non-French cultural i...

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Main Author:	Federico Pagello
Format:	Article
Language:	deu
Published:	Dalhousie University 2013-04-01
Series:	Belphégor
Subjects:	transnational circulation crime fiction silent cinema Fantômas Raffles Lupin
Online Access:	http://journals.openedition.org/belphegor/125

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title	Transnational Fantômas: The Influence of Feuillade’s Series on International Cinema during the 1910s
title_short	Transnational Fantômas: The Influence of Feuillade’s Series on International Cinema during the 1910s
title_full	Transnational Fantômas: The Influence of Feuillade’s Series on International Cinema during the 1910s
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publisher	Dalhousie University
series	Belphégor
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publishDate	2013-04-01
description	This paper analyzes the international distribution of Louis Feuillade’s adaptations of Fantômas novels and their large influence on foreign cinemas. It emphases the global success of Feuillade’s films, as well as the unevenness characterising their reception and assimilation by non-French cultural industries. A highly controversial character and a key player in the relationship between cinema and literature during the crucial years when the feature and serial films boosted and legitimized the film industry, Fantômas is without any doubt an exemplary case study of the transnational and transmediatic circulation of popular fiction.
topic	transnational circulation crime fiction silent cinema Fantômas Raffles Lupin
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Transnational Fantômas: The Influence of Feuillade’s Series on International Cinema during the 1910s

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