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Film sequels : theory and practice from Hollywood to Bollywood / Carolyn Jess-Cooke.
- Title
- Film sequels : theory and practice from Hollywood to Bollywood / Carolyn Jess-Cooke.
- Author
- Jess-Cooke, Carolyn, 1978-
- Publication
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN1995.9.S29 J47 2009x | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 166 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Drawing upon a wide range of filmic examples from early cinema to the 21st century, this book reveals the increasing popularity of, and experimentation with, film sequels as a central dynamic of Hollywood cinema, and aims to account for some of the major critical contexts within which sequelisation operates by exploring sequel production beyond box office figures.
- Uniform Title
- University press scholarship online.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-163) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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).
- ISBN
- 9780748626038
- 0748626034
- OCLC
- 286519386
- SCSB-10894836
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library