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The Hollywood sequel : history & form, 1911-2010
- Title
- The Hollywood sequel : history & form, 1911-2010 / Stuart Henderson.
- Author
- Henderson, Stuart, 1977-
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2014.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 220 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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 critically-neglected yet commercially-dominant art form"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-207) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- MFL 15-2147
- ISBN
- 9781844576524 (hardback)
- 1844576523 (hardback)
- 9781844576517 (paperback)
- 1844576515 (paperback)
- LCCN
- 2014028982
- OCLC
- 889426280
- Author
- Henderson, Stuart, 1977- author.
- Title
- The Hollywood sequel : history & form, 1911-2010 / Stuart Henderson.
- Publisher
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-207) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 15-2147