The Cisco Kid au pays du capitalisme médiatique
O’Henry’s Cisco Kid is a mythical figure of American popular culture during the first half of the 20th century. From the short story The Caballero’s Way, published in 1907, to the broadcasting of the final season of The Cisco Kid TV series in 1955-1956, a transmedia serial narrative unfolds across l...
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| Language: | fra |
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Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Récits Cultures Et Sociétés
2023-07-01
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| Series: | Cahiers de Narratologie |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/narratologie/14531 |
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| Summary: | O’Henry’s Cisco Kid is a mythical figure of American popular culture during the first half of the 20th century. From the short story The Caballero’s Way, published in 1907, to the broadcasting of the final season of The Cisco Kid TV series in 1955-1956, a transmedia serial narrative unfolds across literature, film, radio, television and comics. This essay examines the evolution of film and TV representations of this character over the decades using an approach at the crossroads of film analysis, industrial history and ideological analysis. Thanks to its longevity, the case of the Cisco Kid offers an original outlook on some of the major transformations underwent by the US audiovisual landscape between the 1920s and the 1950s. It also allows us to study, through a concrete example, the ways in which Hollywood contributed to the construction of American national identity. A reaffirmation of seriality as a powerful tool for ideological storytelling will emerge through this analysis. |
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| ISSN: | 0993-8516 1765-307X |