Film sequels : theory and practice from Hollywood to Bollywood / Carolyn Jess-Cooke.
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 e...
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2009.
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Table of 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).