Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel

Published By: State University of New York Press
Publication Date: 1st June 2010
Format: Hardback / Paperback
ISBN: 9781438430294 / 9781438430300
R.R.P. $80.00 / $29.95

About the Book

Written and Edited with Constantine Verevis.

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.

“A comprehensive and adventurous exploration of a timely topic.” – Wheeler Winston Dixon, author of Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia

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