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.
Tabella dei contenuti
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 Mc Enteggart
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
Circa l’autore
Carolyn Jess-Cooke is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom. She is the author of
Shakespeare on Film: Such Things as Dreams Are Made Of and
Film Sequels: Theory and Practice from Hollywood to Bollywood, and the coeditor (with Melissa Croteau) of
Apocalyptic Shakespeare: Essays on Visions of Destruction and Revelation in Recent Film Adaptations.
Constantine Verevis is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, and the author of
Film Remakes.
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