Film Sequels: Theory and Practice from Hollywood to Bollywood

by Carolyn Jess-Cooke

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0092JRCH4
• ISBN13: 9780748626045
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher