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Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel

Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel

Jess-Cooke, Carolyn
Verevis, Constantine

Paperback

Series: Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema

Film StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1438430302
ISBN13: 9781438430300
Publisher: St Univ Of New York Pr
Published: Apr 12 2010
Pages: 263
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

The first collection of essays devoted to the phenomenon of the film sequel.

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.

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