Film Sequels Theory and Practice from Hollywood to Bollywood

by Jess-Cooke, Carolyn

• ISBN13: 9780748626045
• ISBN10: 0748626042
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-20
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

The film sequel is held to be a vampirish corporative exercise inprofitmaking and narrative regurgitation. Drawing upon a wide range of filmicexamples from early cinema to today, this unique volume follows the increasingpopularity and innovation of film sequels as a central dynamic of Hollywood cinema.Now debuting at world cinemas and independent film festivals, the sequel has becomea vehicle for cross-cultural dialogue and a structure by which memories and culturalnarratives are circulated across geographical and historical locations. The bookexplores sequel production beyond box office figures, considering the form in recentmainstream cinema, art-house and "indie" films, and non-Hollywood sequels, and ittraces the effects of the domestic market on sequelization and the impact of thevideo game industry on Hollywood.

Author Biography

Carolyn Jess-Cooke is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sunderland.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vi
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction: The Age of the Sequel: Beyond the Profit Principle	p. 1
Before and After the Blockbuster: A Brief History of the Film Sequel	p. 15
Screaming, Slashing, Sequelling: What the Sequel Did to the Horror Movie	p. 15
'It's All Up To You!Æ: Sequelisation and User-Generated Content	p. 72
Adventures in Indiewood: Sequels in the Independent Film Marketplace	p. 90
Signifying Hollywood: Sequels in the Global Economy	p. 110
Sequelisation and Secondary Memory: Steven Spielberg's Artificial Intelligence: A. I. (2001)	p. 130
References	p. 153
Index	p. 164
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