Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches

by C. Perkins (Editor), C. Verevis (Editor)

Overview

Drawing on a wide range of examples, this book – the first devoted to the phenomenon of the film trilogy– provides a dynamic investigation of the ways in which the trilogy form engages key issues in contemporary discussions of film remaking, adaptation, sequelization and serialization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349321209
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2012
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

DAVID BOYD ConjointAssociate Professor of English and Film at the University of Newcastle, UK NICOLE BRENEZ teaches Cinema Studies at the University of Paris-1/Panthéon-Sorbonne, France SUSAN FELLEMAN Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Women's Studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA DANIEL HERBERTAssistant Professor in Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan, USA NIKKI J. Y. LEELecturer in Culture & Gender Studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea ADRIAN MARTINAssociate Professor in Film and Television Studies at Monash University, Australia LUCY MAZDONProfessor in Film Studies at the University of Southampton, UK PHILIPPE METProfessor of French at the University of Pennsylvania, USA R. BARTON PALMERCalhoun Lemon Professor of Literature and Director of Film Studies at Clemson University, USA MURRAY POMERANCE Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University, USA JULIAN STRINGERAssociate Professor in Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK

Table of 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': François Truffaut's 'Trilogy'; M.Pomerance Notes Index

Editorial Reviews

'This collection is interesting, informative and much-needed. It will act as a key resource within the field and cross-over with a number of related subjects within film studies, such as adaptation, sequels and remakes.'

- Jamie Sexton, Northumbria University, UK

'Film Trilogies is a timely and welcome addition to recent studies of what has been described disparagingly as commercial cinema's financially motivated compulsion to repeat, but with this marked difference; contrary to its association with remakes, series, and sequels, the trilogy, as this volume ably demonstrates, is generally the work of an auteur, and its repetitions are aesthetic and thematic, not formulaic. The essays in this book represent an important contribution to the continuing exploration of the richness of returning to earlier cinematic material.'

- Jennifer Forrest, Texas State University-San Marcos, USA

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