| Description |
1 online resource (272 pages) |
| Contents |
Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Three Times; C. Perkins & C. Verevis -- PART I: INDUSTRY -- Some Thoughts on New Hollywood Multiplicity: Sofia Coppola's Young Girls Trilogy; R.B. Palmer -- Trilogy as Triptych: John Ford's Cavalry Films; D. Boyd -- Bizarre Love Triangle: The Creature Trilogy; C. Verevis -- The Scre4m Trilogy; C. Perkins -- PART II: AUTEURS -- The Broken Trilogy: Jacques Rivette's Phantoms; A. Martin -- A Critical Panoply: Abel Ferrara's Catholic Imagery Trilogy; N. Brenez -- Remake, Repeat, Revive: Kim Ki-young's Housemaid Trilogies; N.J.Y. Lee & J. Stringer -- The Iceman Cometh (To A Theater Near You): Michael Haneke's Glaciation Trilogy; P. Met -- PART III: CRITICS -- Trilogy as Third Term: Historical Narration in Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy; D. Herbert -- Profils paysans: Raymond Depardon's Rural Trilogy; L. Mazdon -- Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through: Three Screen Memories by Wago Kreider; S. Felleman -- 'Antoine Doinel, Antoine Doinel, Antoine Doinel': Fraṅois Truffaut's 'Trilogy'; M. Pomerance -- Notes |
| Summary |
In contemporary discussions of media serialization, the film trilogy is typically absorbed into larger considerations of remaking, repetition and recycling. Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches is the first book to actively address this preconception by attending to the ways in which the trilogy is practiced and perceived as a distinct form at the levels of industry, textuality and criticism. Acknowledging the trilogy's high level of visibility as a commercial mode, as well as its strong historical connections to discourses of authorship and art cinema, the collection begins from the premise that the classification imparts a level of precision exceeding the categories of 'sequels' and 'series'. In lively case studies from American, European and Asian contexts, leading film scholars take up this question to investigate the value that the trilogy nomination brings to a set of films |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Film series -- History and criticism
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Film theory & criticism.
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Film: styles & genres.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Guides & Reviews.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Performing Arts.
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Film series
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Perkins, Claire (Claire Elizabeth)
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Verevis, Constantine.
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| ISBN |
9780230371972 |
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0230371973 |
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