Film Sequels: Theory and Practice from Hollywood to Bollywood - Softcover

Carolyn Jess-Cooke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748626042 ISBN 13: 9780748626045

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2012

Synopsis

The film sequel has been much maligned in popular culture as a vampirish corporative exercise in profit-making and narrative regurgitation. Drawing upon a wide range of filmic examples from early cinema to the twenty-first century, this exciting new 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. The book: *Situates the sequel within its industrial, cultural, theoretical and global contexts.* Offers an essential resource for students and critics interested in film and literary studies, adaptation, critical theory and cultural studies. *Provides the first study of film sequels in world cinemas and independent film-making.

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A valuable resource for anyone interested in film theory and cultural studies. -- Ian Jones, Birkbeck, University of London The Art Book A valuable resource for anyone interested in film theory and cultural studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0748626042
• ISBN 13: 9780748626045
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176