ABSTRACT
Both of these attitudes, even though coming from a specifi c German viewpoint, are characteristic of the debate that will be dealt with in these next chapters, namely, seriality as a means through which confl ict could be expressed and binary oppositions could be raised. Serials were not only adaptable to local discourses, as seen in the previous part. They were consumed in locally specifi c cultural conditions that infl uenced reception and further production, as they for instance connected with national views on America or Europe, confl icts between high and low culture, or the (international) fi lm industry. The third part of this study will explore how the serial could stimulate and interact with these cultural contexts and discourses, more often than not triggering hostile nationalistic feelings. The subjects of these differences are the American serials that for the fi rst time were released in abundance in Germany in 1921 as well as European serials that from that same time on were imported into America.
