Film sequels theory and practice from Hollywood to Bollywood - Jess-Cooke, Carolyn (Edinburgh University Press, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-163) and index
Introduction: The age of the $equel: beyond the profit principle -- Before and after the blockbuster: a brief history of the film sequel -- Screaming, slashing, sequelling: what the sequel did to the horror movie -- "It's all up to you!": sequelisation and user-generated content -- Adventures in Indiewood: sequels in the independent film marketplace -- Signifying Hollywood: sequels in the global economy -- Sequelisation and secondary memory: Steven Spielberg's Artificial intelligence: A.I. (2001)
Drawing upon a wide range of filmic examples from early cinema to the 21st century, this book reveals the increasing popularity of, and experimentation with, film sequels as a central dynamic of Hollywood cinema, and aims to account for some of the major critical contexts within which sequelisation operates by exploring sequel production beyond box office figures