Second Takes Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel
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2010
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9781438430300
Publisert
2010-04-12
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State University of New York Press
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363 gr
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229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
25 mm
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G, 01
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Engelsk
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Heftet
Antall sider
263
Biographical note
Carolyn Jess-Cooke is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom. She is the author of Shakespeare on Film: Such Things as Dreams Are Made Of and Film Sequels: Theory and Practice from Hollywood to Bollywood, and the coeditor (with Melissa Croteau) of Apocalyptic Shakespeare: Essays on Visions of Destruction and Revelation in Recent Film Adaptations. Constantine Verevis is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, and the author of Film Remakes."âŚengage[s] with the sequel in a wide range of national and historical contexts." â Scope<br /><br />"âŚSecond Takes is the first essay collection exploring the trend of sequelization and multi-film franchises in contemporary cinema and an excellent and valuable addition to the slowly growing field of academic research on sequels, series, and remakes." â Screening the Past<br /><br />"A comprehensive and adventurous exploration of a timely topic." â Wheeler Winston Dixon, author of Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia
Sequels, serials, and remakes have been a staple of cinema since the very beginning, and recent years have seen the emergence of dynamic and progressive variations of these multi-film franchises. Taking a broad range of sequels as case studies, from the Godfather movies to the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Second Takes confronts the complications posed by film sequels and their aftermaths, proposing new critical approaches to what has become a dominant industrial mode of Hollywood cinema. The contributors explore the sequel's investments in repetition, difference, continuation, and retroactivity, and particularly those attitudes and approaches toward the sequel that hold it up as a kind of figurehead of Hollywood's commercial imperatives. An invaluable resource to the film student, critic, and fan, Second Takes offers new ways of looking at the film sequel's industrial, aesthetic, cultural, political, and theoretical contexts.
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The first collection of essays devoted to the phenomenon of the film sequel.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Carolyn Jess-Cooke and Constantine Verevis 1. Redefining the Sequel: The Case of the (Living) Dead Constantine Verevis 2. Of âTrueâ Sequels: The Four Daughters Movies, or the Series That Wasnât Jennifer Forrest 3. Sequel-Ready Fiction: After Austenâs Happily Ever After Thomas Leitch 4. Before and After, Before Before and After: Godfather I, II , and III R. Barton Palmer 5. Sequelizing Hollywood: The American âSmartâ Film Claire Perkins 6. From Remake to Sequel: Oceanâs Eleven and Oceanâs Twelve Joyce Goggin 7. Decent Burial or Miraculous Resurrection: Serenity, Mourning, and Sequels to Dead Television Shows Ina Rae Hark 8. Prequel: The âAfterwardsnessâ of the Sequel Paul Sutton 9. Circulations: Technology and Discourse in The Ring Intertext Daniel Herbert 10. Sequelizing the Superhero: Postmillennial Anxiety and Cultural âNeedâ Simon McEnteggart 11. Before and After and Right Now: Sequels in the Digital Era Nicholas Rombes 12. Sequelizing Spectatorship and Building Up the Kingdom: The Case of Pirates of the Caribbean, Or, How a Theme Park Attraction Spawned a Multibillion-Dollar Film Franchise Carolyn Jess-Cooke Works Cited List of Contributors Index
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781438430300
Publisert
2010-04-12
Utgiver
Vendor
State University of New York Press
Vekt
363 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
25 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
G, 01
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
263