Second Takes by Carolyn Jess-Cooke
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.-
Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination
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Hitchcock and Hospitality
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Brief Encounters
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Wastelands and Wonderlands
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From Doors to Screens
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The Biopolitical Turn in World Cinema
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Language Without Borders
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Overhearing Film Music
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On Shoreless Sea
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Haunting the World
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Celluloid Babel
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Happiness and Tears, After Cavell
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Cavell on Film
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Eccentric Laughter
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Déjà Viewed
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Plastic Time
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Visions in the Frame
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The Celluloid Atlantic
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Torturous Etiquettes
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The Slapstick Camera
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Action, Action, Action
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Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East
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Seeing Symphonically
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Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives
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Writ on Water
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Curtains of Light
"…engage[s] with the sequel in a wide range of national and historical contexts" — Scope
"…Second Takes is the first essay collection exploring the trend of sequelization and multi-film franchises in contemporary cinema and an excellent and valuable addition to the slowly growing field of academic research on sequels, series, and remakes." — Screening the Past
"A comprehensive and adventurous exploration of a timely topic." — Wheeler Winston Dixon, author of Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia
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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| ISBN 13 | 9781438430294 |
| ISBN 10 | 1438430299 |
| Title | Second Takes |
| Author | Carolyn Jess-Cooke |
| Series | Suny Series Horizons Of Cinema |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2010-04-12 |
| Number of pages | 263 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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