Second takes : critical approaches to the film sequel / edited by Carolyn Jess-Cooke and Constantine Verevis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jess-Cooke, Carolyn, 1978-

Verevis, Constantine.

Series:

SUNY series, horizons of cinema.

SUNY series, horizons of cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film sequels.

Film series.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first collection of essays devoted to the phenomenon of the film sequel.

Contents:

Introduction / Carolyn Jess-Cooke and Constantine Verevis

Re-defining the sequel : the case of the (living) dead / Constantine Verevis

Of "true" sequels : The four daughters movies, or the series that wasn't / Jennifer Forrest

Sequel-ready fiction : after Austen's happily ever after / Thomas Leitch

Before and after, before before and after : Godfather I, II, and III / R. Barton Palmer

Sequelizing Hollywood : the American "smart" film / Claire Perkins

From remake to sequel : Ocean's eleven and Ocean's twelve / Joyce Goggin

Decent burial or miraculous resurrection : serenity, mourning, and sequels to dead television shows / Ina Rae Hark

Prequel : the "afterwardsness" of the sequel / Paul Sutton

Circulations : technology and discourse in The ring intertext / Daniel Herbert

Sequelizing the superhero : postmillennial anxiety and cultural "need" / Simon McEnteggart

Before and after and right now : sequels in the digital era / Nicholas Rombes

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438430317

1438430310

9781441648969

1441648968

OCLC:

630116684