Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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
Synopsis
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.