The Hollywood sequel : history & form, 1911-2010 / Stuart Henderson.
"This illuminating study charts the changing role of the Hollywood film sequel over the past century. Considering a range of sequels in their industrial, historical and aesthetic contexts, from The Son of a Sheik (1926) to Toy Story 3 (2010), this book provides a comprehensive history of this c...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- "Here we go again ... again": Introducing the Hollywood Sequel
- Part 1. History: 1. Early Sequels 1911-28; 2. Sequels in the Factory 1929-54; 3. The Uncertainty Principles 1955-77; 4. The End is Just the Beginning 1978-2010
- Part 2. Form: 5. No End in Sight: The Classical Narrative Paradigm and the Sequel; 6. The McClane Principle: Intertextuality, Stardom and Character in the Sequel; 7. A Formula of Formula: Genre and the Sequel; Conclusion: The Hollywood Sequel: A Story Complete in Itself
- Appendix: Explanatory note: A Statistical Survey of Sequels, Series Films, Prequels and Spin-Offs, 1910-2009
- Summary Statistics.