Film Sequels: Theory and Practice from Hollywood to Bollywood

ISBN-13: 9780748626045 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 176 str.

Carolyn Jess-Cooke

Opis

The film sequel has been maligned in popular culture as a vampirish corporative exercise in profit-making and narrative regurgitation. Drawing upon a wide range of examples from early cinema to the twenty-first century, this volume reveals the increasing popularity of, and experimentation with, film sequels as a central dynamic of Hollywood cinema. Now creeping into world cinemas and independent film festivals, the sequel is persistently employed as a vehicle for cross-cultural dialogue and as a structure by which memories and cultural narratives can be circulated across geographical and historical locations. This book aims to account for some of the major critical contexts within which sequelisation operates by exploring sequel production beyond box office figures. Its account ranges from sequels in recent mainstream cinema, art-house and 'indie' sequels, non-Hollywood sequels, the effects of the domestic market on sequelisation, and the impact of the video game industry on Hollywood.

Spis treści

Introduction - The Age of the $equel: Rethinking the Profit Principle; 1. Origins, New Hollywood, and Originality; 2. Narrative, Genre, and Gender; 3. Interactive Narratives: New Media and Video Game Sequels ; 4. Sequels at Sundance: Narrative Franchising, Authorship, and the Avant-Garde; 5. Global Sequels ; 6. Sequelization, 9/11, and Secondary Memory; Conclusion: TV, DVD, and the Global Economy.