Film Sequels: Theory and Practice from Hollywood to Bollywood

Carolyn Jess-Cooke 2009



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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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The film sequel has been maligned in popular culture as a vampirish corporative exercise in profit-making and narrative regurgitation. Drawing upon a wide range of examples from early cinema to the twenty-first century, this volume reveals the increasing popularity of, and experimentation with, film sequels as a central dynamic of Hollywood cinema. Now creeping into world cinemas and independent film festivals, the sequel is persistently employed as a vehicle for cross-cultural dialogue and as a structure by which memories and cultural narratives can be circulated across geographical and historical locations. This book aims to account for some of the major critical contexts within which sequelisation operates by exploring sequel production beyond box office figures. Its account ranges from sequels in recent mainstream cinema, art-house and ‘indie’ sequels, non-Hollywood sequels, the effects of the domestic market on sequelisation, and the impact of the video game industry on Hollywood.


Review

A valuable resource for anyone interested in film theory and cultural studies.
— Ian Jones, Birkbeck, University of London The Art Book


About the Author

arolyn Jess-Cooke is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sunderland