{"product_id":"cycles-sequels-spin-offs-remakes-and-reboots-multiplicities-in-film-and-television-paperback-softback-9781477308172","title":"Cycles, Sequels, Spin-offs, Remakes, and Reboots; Multiplicities in Film and Television (Paperback \/ softback) 9781477308172","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCycles, Sequels, Spin-offs, Remakes, and Reboots\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMultiplicities in Film and Television\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAmanda Ann Klein (Edited by), R. Barton Palmer (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477308172, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 March 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e367 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.594 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"This volume expands on Amanda Ann Klein’s \u003ci\u003eAmerican Film Cycles\u003c\/i\u003e to open up an extremely fruitful approach to serial and related media phenomena. It will no doubt be adopted as a supplementary text for a wide range of courses in film and television studies.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Linda C. Badley, Professor of English, Middle Tennessee State University, and author of Lars von Trier and many other works on film)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith sequels, prequels, remakes, spin-offs, or copies of successful films or franchises dominating film and television production, it sometimes seems as if Hollywood is incapable of making an original film or TV show. These textual pluralities or multiplicities-while loved by fans who flock to them in droves-tend to be dismissed by critics and scholars as markers of the death of high culture. \u003ci\u003eCycles, Sequels, Spin-offs, Remakes, and Reboots\u003c\/i\u003e takes the opposite view, surveying a wide range of international media multiplicities for the first time to elucidate their importance for audiences, industrial practices, and popular culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe essays in this volume offer a broad picture of the ways in which cinema and television have used multiplicities to streamline the production process, and to capitalize on and exploit viewer interest in previously successful and\/or sensational story properties. An impressive lineup of established and emerging scholars talk seriously about forms of multiplicity that are rarely discussed as such, including direct-to-DVD films made in Nigeria, cross-cultural Japanese horror remakes, YouTube fan-generated trailer mash-ups, and 1970s animal revenge films. They show how considering the particular bonds that tie texts to one another allows us to understand more about the audiences for these texts and why they crave a version of the same story (or character or subject) over and over again. These findings demonstrate that, far from being lowbrow art, multiplicities are actually doing important cultural work that is very worthy of serious study.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. Introduction (Amanda Ann Klein and R. Barton Palmer)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. The Kissing Cycle, Mashers, and (White) Women in the American City (Amanda Ann Klein)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. Descended from Hercules: Masculine Anxiety in the Peplum (Robert Rushing)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. The American Postwar Semidocumentary Cycle: Factual Dramatizations (R. Barton Palmer)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. Cycle Consciousness and the White Audience in Black Film Writing: The 1949–1950 \"\u003cbr\u003eRace Problem\"\u003cbr\u003e Cycle and the African American Press (Steven Doles)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. Vicious Cycle: Jaws and Revenge-of-Nature Films of the 1970s (Constantine Verevis)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7. Familiar Otherness: On the Contemporary Cross-Cultural Remake (Chelsey Crawford)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8. Anime's Dangerous Innocents: Millennial Anxieties, Gender Crises, and the \u003ci\u003eShōjo\u003c\/i\u003e Body as a Weapon (Elizabeth Birmingham)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9. It's Only a Film, Isn't It? Policy Paranoia Thrillers of the War on Terror (Vincent M. Gaine)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10. Doing Dumbledore: Actor-Character Bonding and Accretionary Performance (Murray Pomerance)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 11. A Lagosian Lady Gaga: Cross-Cultural Identification in Nollywood's Anti-Biopic Cycle (Noah Tsika)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 12. Re-solving Crimes: A Cycle of TV Detective Partnerships (Sarah Kornfield)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 13. Smart TV: Showtime's \"\u003cbr\u003eBad Mommies\"\u003cbr\u003e Cycle (Claire Perkins)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 14. My Generation(s): Cycles, Branding, and Renewal in E4's Skins (Faye Woods)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 15. Extended Attractions: Recut Trailers, Film Promotion, and Audience Desire (Kathleen Williams)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 16. Retro-Remaking: The 1980s Film Cycle in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (Kathleen Loock)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 17. I Can't Lead This Vacation Anymore: Mumblecore's American Man (Amy Borden)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 18. Serialized Killers: Prebooting Horror in Bates Motel and Hannibal (Andrew Scahill)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739369074968,"sku":"9781477308172","price":22.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/cycles-sequels-spin-offs-remakes-and-reboots-multiplicities-in-film-and-television-paperback-softback-9781477308172","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}