Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction (Amanda Ann Klein and R. Barton
Palmer)
- Chapter 2. The Kissing Cycle, Mashers, and (White) Women in the
American City (Amanda Ann Klein)
- Chapter 3. Descended from Hercules: Masculine Anxiety in the
Peplum (Robert Rushing)
- Chapter 4. The American Postwar Semidocumentary Cycle: Factual
Dramatizations (R. Barton Palmer)
- Chapter 5. Cycle Consciousness and the White Audience in Black
Film Writing: The 1949–1950 "Race Problem" Cycle and the African
American Press (Steven Doles)
- Chapter 6. Vicious Cycle: Jaws and Revenge-of-Nature Films of
the 1970s (Constantine Verevis)
- Chapter 7. Familiar Otherness: On the Contemporary
Cross-Cultural Remake (Chelsey Crawford)
- Chapter 8. Anime's Dangerous Innocents: Millennial Anxieties,
Gender Crises, and the Shōjo Body as a Weapon (Elizabeth
Birmingham)
- Chapter 9. It's Only a Film, Isn't It? Policy Paranoia
Thrillers of the War on Terror (Vincent M. Gaine)
- Chapter 10. Doing Dumbledore: Actor-Character Bonding and
Accretionary Performance (Murray Pomerance)
- Chapter 11. A Lagosian Lady Gaga: Cross-Cultural Identification
in Nollywood's Anti-Biopic Cycle (Noah Tsika)
- Chapter 12. Re-solving Crimes: A Cycle of TV Detective
Partnerships (Sarah Kornfield)
- Chapter 13. Smart TV: Showtime's "Bad Mommies" Cycle (Claire
Perkins)
- Chapter 14. My Generation(s): Cycles, Branding, and Renewal in
E4's Skins (Faye Woods)
- Chapter 15. Extended Attractions: Recut Trailers, Film
Promotion, and Audience Desire (Kathleen Williams)
- Chapter 16. Retro-Remaking: The 1980s Film Cycle in
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (Kathleen Loock)
- Chapter 17. I Can't Lead This Vacation Anymore: Mumblecore's
American Man (Amy Borden)
- Chapter 18. Serialized Killers: Prebooting Horror in Bates
Motel and Hannibal (Andrew Scahill)
- List of Contributors
- Index
Promotional Information
"A strong and very necessary addition to the growing body of work
that contends with filmic repetition and the commercial and
cultural complexities of film and television production and
reception across multimedia platforms. The range of essays is
impressive." -- Carolyn Jess-Cooke, University of Glasgow, author
of Film Sequels: Theory and Practice from Hollywood to Bollywood
and coeditor of Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film
Sequel "This volume expands on Amanda Ann Klein's American Film
Cycles 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." -- Linda C. Badley, Professor of English,
Middle Tennessee State University, and author of Lars von Trier and
many other works on film
About the Author
Amanda Ann Klein is an associate professor of film studies at
East Carolina University. R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon
Professor of Literature and director of film studies at Clemson
University.
Reviews
"This volume expands on Amanda Ann Klein’s American Film Cycles 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."
*Linda C. Badley, Professor of English, Middle Tennessee State
University, and author of Lars von Trier and many other works on
film*