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Film Sequels: Theory and Practice from Hollywood to Bollywood
Carolyn Jess-Cooke
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Paperback. A study of sequel production within recent Hollywood and beyond in terms of its industrial, cultural and global implications. Num Pages: 176 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 10. Weight in Grams: 284.
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 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 ... Read more
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 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748626045
SKU
V9780748626045
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About Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Carolyn Jess-Cooke is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sunderland.
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