Film Trilogies New Critical Approaches [Hardcover]

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.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': Fran?ois Truffaut's 'Trilogy'; M.Pomerance Notes Index

'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 lC&