Second Takes : Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel (Suny series, Horizons of Cinema)

Jess-Cooke, Carolyn (EDT)/ Verevis, Constantine (EDT)

State University of New York Press（2010/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 263 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438430300
• DDC分類 791.43

Full Description

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

Sequels, serials, and remakes have been a staple of cinema since the very beginning, and recent years have seen the emergence of dynamic and progressive variations of these multi-film franchises. Taking a broad range of sequels as case studies, from the Godfather movies to the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Second Takes confronts the complications posed by film sequels and their aftermaths, proposing new critical approaches to what has become a dominant industrial mode of Hollywood cinema. The contributors explore the sequel's investments in repetition, difference, continuation, and retroactivity, and particularly those attitudes and approaches toward the sequel that hold it up as a kind of figurehead of Hollywood's commercial imperatives. An invaluable resource to the film student, critic, and fan, Second Takes offers new ways of looking at the film sequel's industrial, aesthetic, cultural, political, and theoretical contexts.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Carolyn Jess-Cooke and Constantine Verevis

1. Redefining the Sequel: The Case of the (Living) Dead
Constantine Verevis

2. Of "True" Sequels: The Four Daughters Movies, or the Series That Wasn't
Jennifer Forrest

3. Sequel-Ready Fiction: After Austen's Happily Ever After
Thomas Leitch

4. Before and After, Before Before and After: Godfather I, II, and III
R. Barton Palmer

5. Sequelizing Hollywood: The American "Smart" Film
Claire Perkins

6. From Remake to Sequel: Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Twelve
Joyce Goggin

7. Decent Burial or Miraculous Resurrection: Serenity, Mourning, and Sequels to Dead Television Shows
Ina Rae Hark

8. Prequel: The "Afterwardsness" of the Sequel
Paul Sutton

9. Circulations: Technology and Discourse in The Ring Intertext
Daniel Herbert

10. Sequelizing the Superhero: Postmillennial Anxiety and Cultural "Need"
Simon McEnteggart

11. Before and After and Right Now: Sequels in the Digital Era 
Nicholas Rombes

12. 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

Works Cited
List of Contributors
Index