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serialFilm presented in a series of episodes over several months. The serials, usually adventure melodramas, probably developed from the adventure stories published in monthly installments in magazines. The first internationally popular serial, The Perils of Pauline (1914), starring Pearl White, was followed by other serials such as The Hazards of Helen, which ran for 119 episodes (1914–17). Serials focused on action sequences, with cliff-hanging endings for each episode. They remained popular with movie audiences, especially children, into the 1940s. serialOne after the other. serial 1. Computing of or operating on items of information, instructions, etc., in the order in which they occur 2. of, relating to, or using the techniques of serialism 3. Logic maths (of a relation) connected, transitive, and asymmetric, thereby imposing an order on all the members of the domain, as less than on the natural numbers |
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For instance, each day for 512 days, beginning in December 2000, Koether made a multicolored drawing on a piece of graph paper, filling square after square with colored pencil, in an apparent reiteration of strict Minimalist seriality. Tillyard's influential study on the history plays, arguments for seriality have tended to elaborate grand narratives within an ideological framework. Metaphors and techniques of containment, orientation, and seriality - all of which reinforce most readers' conventional expectations of clarity, consistency, and excluded middles - are so embedded(4) in Johnson's novel (and nonfiction) that Middle Passage ultimately reinscribes perceptual rigor mortis in its readers. |
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