Film sequels : theory and practice from Hollywood to Bollywood / Carolyn Jess-Cooke.
- Title
- Film sequels : theory and practice from Hollywood to Bollywood / Carolyn Jess-Cooke.
- Published by
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2009.
- Author
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- Description
- viii, 166 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Drawing upon a wide range of filmic examples from early cinema to the 21st century, this book reveals the increasing popularity of, and experimentation with, film sequels as a central dynamic of Hollywood cinema, and aims to account for some of the major critical contexts within which sequelisation operates by exploring sequel production beyond box office figures.
- Uniform title
- University press scholarship online.
- Subject
- Contents
- Introduction: The age of the $equel: beyond the profit principle -- Before and after the blockbuster: a brief history of the film sequel -- Screaming, slashing, sequelling: what the sequel did to the horror movie -- "It's all up to you!": sequelisation and user-generated content -- Adventures in Indiewood: sequels in the independent film marketplace -- Signifying Hollywood: sequels in the global economy -- Sequelisation and secondary memory: Steven Spielberg's Artificial intelligence: A. I. (2001).
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-163) and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain