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Call No: 210.31(73) FRI
Author: Fritz, Ben
Source: US
Place: Boston
Publisher: Eamon Dolan Book/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
PubDate: 2018
PhysDes: xxv, 278 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject: SONY CORPORATION; MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT; AMAZON; NETFLIX; IMAX; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; BUENA VISTA INTERNATIONAL; WARNER BROS.; FRANCHISES; STAR WARS [...] (US, 1977-2015)
Summary: "The stunning metamorphosis of twenty-first-century Hollywood and what lies ahead for the art and commerce of film. In the past decade, Hollywood has endured a cataclysm on a par with the end of silent film and the demise of the studio system. Stars and directors have seen their power dwindle, while writers and producers lift their best techniques from TV, comic books, and the toy biz. The future of Hollywood is being written by powerful corporate brands like Marvel, Amazon, Netflix, and Lego, as well as censors in China. Ben Fritz chronicles this dramatic shakeup with unmatched skill, bringing equal fluency to both the financial and entertainment aspects of Hollywood. He dives deeply into the fruits of the Sony hack to show how the previous model, long a creative and commercial success, lost its way. And he looks ahead through interviews with dozens of key players at Disney, Marvel, Netflix, Amazon, IMAX, and others to discover how they have reinvented the business. He shows us, for instance, how Marvel replaced stars with "universes," and how Disney remade itself in Apple's image and reaped enormous profits. But despite the destruction of the studios' traditional playbook, Fritz argues that these seismic shifts signal the dawn of a new heyday for film. The Big Picture shows the first glimmers of this new golden age through the eyes of the creative mavericks who are defining what our movies will look like in the new era." -- Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index.
ISBN: 9780544789760
Contents: A notes on sources ix -- Introduction: Groundhog Day-How franchises killed originality in Hollywood xii -- Part 1: How Hollywood got here -- The Odd Couple: Lynton and Pascal's glory days at Sony -- Reality Bites: How everything went wrong for the movie business -- Inception: The secret origin of the superhero movie -- Revenge of the Nerds: The rise of Marvel Studios -- Spiderman: Homecoming- why Sony gave up its most valuable asset -- Star Wars: The decline of the A-list -- A Star is Born: Netflix, the new home for movie stars -- Frozen: Why studios stopped making mid-budget dramas -- Trading places: How tv stole movies' spot atop Hollywood -- Part 2: Where Hollywood is headed -- The Terminator: Disney, the perfect studio for the franchise age -- The Producers: Creativity meets franchise managment -- The Shop Around the Corner: Amazon saves the indie film business -- Apt Pupil: China's shifting relationship with Hollywood -- Field of Dreams: Studio defectors and the future of nonfranchise films -- The Last Picture Show?

Call No: 753.81 FIL
Author: Herbert, Daniel; Verevis, Constantine
Edition: 2020
Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
PubDate: 2020
PhysDes: 244 pages : illustrated ; 25 cm
Series: Screen Serialities
Subject: REMAKES; FRANCHISES; BATMAN IN FILMS; GHOSTBUSTERS (US, Ivan Reitman, 1984); GHOSTBUSTERS (US, Paul Feig, 2016); STAR TREK; STAR WARS [...] (US, 1977-2015)
Notes: Bringing together the latest developments in the study of serial formatting practices – remakes, sequels, series – Film Reboots is the first edited collection to specifically focus on the new millennial phenomenon of rebooting. Through a set of vibrant case studies, this collection investigates rebooting as a practice that seeks to remake an entire film series or franchise, with ambitions that are at once respectful and revisionary. Examining such notable examples as Batman, Ghostbusters, and Star Trek, among others, this collection contends with some of the most important features of contemporary film and media culture today. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781474451369
Contents: Introduction: Film Reboots / Daniel Herbert and Constantine Verevis. PART I: INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE -- 1. Rethinking the ‘Supersystem’: Film Reboots and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / Daniel Herbert -- 2. Live Long and Prosper: Rebooting Star Trek and Reimagining Fandom / Erin Hanna -- 3. The Many Reboots of the Batman / Eileen R. Meehan. PART II: STRUCTURE AND NARRATIVE -- 4. The Edge of Reality: Replicating Blade Runner / Constantine Verevis -- 5. Gender, Genre and the Reboot: From Ocean’s 11/Eleven to Ocean’s 8/Eight / Jennifer Forrest -- 6. Understanding Twin Peaks: The Return as a ‘Film Reboot’ via Anti-Franchise Discourses Within Media Franchising / Matt Hills -- 7. All This Has Happened Before: Mythic Repetition in the Film-to-Television Reboot / Nicholas Benson & Jonathan Gray PART III: POLITICS AND IDENTITY -- 8. Resistance and Empire: Star Wars and the Social Justice Reboot / Derek Johnson -- 9. Rebooting the Politics of the Sports Melodrama: Creed vs. Rocky / Chuck Tryon -- 10. Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot / Claire Perkins PART IV: FANS AND AUDIENCES -- 11. Reboot, Requel, Legacyquel: Jurassic World and the Nostalgia Franchise / Kathleen Loock -- 12. Worldbuilding, Retconning, and Legacy Rebooting: Alien and Contemporary Media Franchise Strategies / James Fleury -- 13. Anticipating the Reboot: Teasing Top Gun 2 / Paul Grainge -- 14. A Dark Knight on Elm Street: Discursive Regimes of (Sub) Cultural Value, Paratextual Bonding, and the Perils of Remaking and Rebooting Canonical Horror Cinema / William Proctor Contributors -- Notes

Call No: 753.81 FRA
Author: Fleury, James; Hartzheim, Bryan Hikari; Mamber, Stephen
Edition: 2020
Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
PubDate: 2020
PhysDes: xvi, 320 pages : illustrated
Subject: FRANCHISES; ALIEN [...] (UK/US, 1979-92); CRITTERS (US, Stephen Herek, 1986); DISNEY; VIDEO GAMES; STAR WARS [...] (US, 1977-2015); KOKAKU KIDOTAI (JA/UK Oshii Mamoru, 1995); HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (US, Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders, 2010); TELEVISION; MOBILE AND ONLINE MEDIA; VIRTUAL REALITY
Summary: As Hollywood shifts towards the digital era, the role of the media franchise has become more prominent. This edited collection, from a range of international scholars, argues that the franchise is now an integral element of American media culture. As such, the collection explores the production, distribution and marketing of franchises as a historical form of media-making – analysing the complex industrial practice of managing franchises across interconnected online platforms. Examining how traditional media incumbents like studios and networks have responded to the rise of new entrants from the technology sector (such as Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google), the authors take a critical look at the way new and old industrial logics collide in an increasingly fragmented and consolidated mediascape. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781474477741
Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements – Foreword / Derek Johnson -- Introduction: The Franchise Era / James Fleury, Bryan Hikari Hartzheim, and Stephen Mamber PART I THE FRANCHISE: DEFINING AND HISTORICIZING -- The (Im)Perfect Organism: Dissecting the Alien Media Franchise / James Fleury and Stephen Mamber -- Evil Spawn or Good Business? New Line Cinema, Critters, and Film Franchising at the Margins / Daniel Herbert PART II VIDEO GAMES: SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, AND SPACE -- The Happiest Plays on Earth: Theme Park Franchising in Disneyland Video Games / Heather Lea Birdsall -- ‘Now They’re Playing with Power!’: Nintendo’s Classics and Franchise Legacy Management / Matthew Thomas Payne -- From Cineludic Form to Mise-en-Game: The Ludification of Cinematic Storyworlds in the Star Wars Video Games / Andreas Rauscher PART III: ANIMATION: ADAPTATION ACROSS NATIONS, INDUSTRIES, AND PLATFORMS -- Ghostly Boundaries: Transnational Tensions and Adapting Animation in the Ghost in the Shell Franchise / Brian Ruh -- How to Animate Your Franchise: DreamWorks Animation and the Franchising of How to Train Your Dragon / Rayna Denison PART IV: TELEVISION: NEW DIRECTIONS FOR A LEGACY MEDIUM -- TV Brand-casting, SVOD, and OTT at Comcast and Disney / Jennifer Gillan -- Network Streaming: TV Broadcasters in the Digital Space / Monica Sandler PART V: EMERGENT PLATFORMS: POSSIBLE FUTURES FOR THE MEDIA FRANCHISE -- Transmedia-to-Go: Licensed Mobile Gaming in Japan / Bryan Hikari Hartzheim -- Locating Esports Spectatorship – Studio Audience(ing) and Sites of Speculation / Alexander Champlin -- Hollywood’s VR Vision: New Frontier or Virtually the Same Thing? / James Fleury Index

Call No: 81 STA GOL
Author: Golding, Dan
Place: Minneapolis
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: 2019
Subject: STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977); LUCAS, GEORGE; MERCHANDISING; NOSTALGIA; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (US, J.J. Abrams, 2015); ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (US, Gareth Edwards, 2016); STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (US, Rian Johnson, 2017); FRANCHISES; STAR WARS: REBELS
Summary: Focusing on The Force Awakens (2015), Rogue One (2016), The Last Jedi (2017), and the television series Rebels (2014–18), Dan Golding explores the significance of pop culture nostalgia in overcoming the skepticism, if not downright hostility, that greeted the Star Wars relaunch. In its granular textual readings, broad cultural scope, and insights into the complexities of the multimedia galaxy, this book is as entertaining as it is enlightening.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781517905422
Contents: Introduction: Star wars and the history of nostalgia Before the empire: the politics of George Lucas and the critique of the original trilogy It calls to you: selling Star wars in 2015 Look how old you've become: the force awakens as legacy film An awakening: diversity as the politics of the force awakens Just like old times?: music, seriality, and the fugue of the force awakens You have to start somewhere: contrasting nostalgias in the force awakens and rogue one You think anybody's listening?: fighting fascism in rogue one and rebels I've always hated watching you leave: death, Han Solo, and Carrie Fisher I will finish what you started: Star wars from the last jedi and beyond.

Call No: 71(73) "200"
Author: Archer, Neil
Edition: 2019
Place: New York; Chichester, UK
Publisher: Wallflower Press
PhysDes: 118 pages : illustrated ; 22 cm
Subject: AUDIENCE RESEARCH. USA; DEL TORO, GUILLERMO; DISNEY; FRANCHISES; MARVEL; PIXAR; WARNER BROS.
Summary: Twenty-First-Century Hollywood looks into the contexts of studio film production in the new century in order to understand what shapes the style and content of present-day cinema. In an era dominated in box-office terms by the franchise and the family film, this book combines close textual readings and industrial analysis, illustrating why these kinds of movies are favored in the contemporary climate by producers and audiences alike. Neil Archer critically explores the narrative and aesthetic strategies at work in Hollywood’s most high-profile films, from Harry Potter, to Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, to The Lego Movie. Along the way, the book answers some often unexpected questions: Why is Hollywood nervous about flying saucers? Why might the cinematic auteur be Hollywood’s savior? And why are the most grown-up movies those made for children? As this study shows, like the films themselves, the answers to these questions are often complex and surprising. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9780231191593
Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Rebooted? -- 1. Why Can’t Hollywood Rely on Flying Saucers? Industry, Audience and Franchise Logic -- 2. What Does Hollywood Really Like About Comic Books? Structure and Style in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe -- 3. Is Hollywood Saving the World, or Is the World Saving Hollywood? Industrial Authorship and Experimental Blockbusters -- 4. Why Are the Most Grown-Up Films Made for Children? Ways of Playing in the Family Film -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index

Call No: 203.94 MOR
Author: Moran, Albert; Malbon, Justin
Source: UK
Place: Portland, Or. ; Bristol, England
Publisher: Intellect Books
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: 187 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: COPYRIGHT TV; DISTRIBUTION; PRODUCTION; FRANCHISES; VERSIONS; TRADE FAIRS; GAMES SHOWS
Summary: Examines the global television format as an entitiy in itself and describes its developmental stages from conception to distribution.
Notes: Includes appendices and index Bibliography: p. 171-180
ISBN: 1841501328

Call No: 205.26 WHO
Author: Knight, Rhonda; Quist, Donald
Edition: 2022
Place: Jefferson, North Carolina
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
PubDate: 2022
PhysDes: vi, 258 pages ; 23 cm
Subject: FRANCHISES; STAR WARS [...] (US, 1977-2015); MARVEL; GODZILLA IN FILMS; STAR TREK [TV] [...] (US, 1966-69, 1987-)
Summary: Fans and the billion-dollar franchises in which they participate have together become powerful agents within popular culture. These franchises have launched avenues for fans to expand and influence the stories that they tell. This book examines those fan-driven narratives as “wilderness texts,” in which fans use their platforms to create for themselves while also communicating their visions to the franchises, thus spurring innovation. The essays in this collection look at how fans intervene in the production of mass media. Scholars analyze the negotiations between fan desires for both novelty and familiarity that franchises must maintain in order to achieve critical and commercial success. Applying varying theoretical approaches to discussions of fan responses to franchises, including Star Wars, Marvel, Godzilla, Firefly, The Terminator, Star Trek, DC, and The Muppets, these essays provide insight into the ever-changing relationships between fandom and transmedia storytelling. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781476684154
Contents: We Want the Wilderness: A Preface / Donald Quist and Rhonda Knight -- An Introduction to Fans and Franchises: Essays on the Changing Landscape of Fandom / Donald Quist and Rhonda Knight with John E. Price Section One: Fans and Canon -- The¬Pedler-Davis Legacy: Cybermen in the Doctor Who Wilderness / Rhonda Knight -- The Wild Canon: Examining the Slash Impact in Roddenberry’s Star Trek / Danielle S. Girard -- A Hero Divided: The Fractured Narrative Arc of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars Expanded Universe (1977–2014) / Jonathan Hay Section Two: Franchises and Fans -- “What we make of it”: Terminator Salvation and the Neglect of Core Franchise Themes / Camilo Peralta -- Whose Godzilla? Rethinking the King of Monsters Through the Films / Joe Yang -- Where Auteur Fails: Zack Snyder and the Author-Function / Hannah Taylor -- The Scraps of DC: Media Ownership, Film Economics and the Arrowverse / Tim Posada -- Reminders of Life’s Impermanence: Death, Endings and Closure in Logan and Avengers: Infinity War / Mike Hernandez Section Three: Fan Responses -- “Take me out to the black”: Firefly, Fanfiction and the (Re)Making of Modern Myths / Jim Casey and Nicola Rene Govocek -- You Always Spoof the One You Love: Thirty Years of Professional Take-Offs on The Muppet Show / Jonathan Hartmann -- “We, the fans of Star Wars”: Negotiating Resistance in an Age of Consumption / Joseph S. Walker -- Fans, Franchises and Cultural Production: What The Hobbit and Disney’s Star Wars Tell Us About the Internet and Media Entertainment Culture / Zachary Sheldon About the Contributors -- Index

Call No: 45[3-02] OHA
Author: O'Hara, Helen
Edition: 2021
Place: London
Publisher: Robinson
PubDate: 2021
PhysDes: xiii, 354 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: WOMEN FILM WORKERS; FRANCHISES; ME TOO
Summary: A call to arms from Empire magazine’s ‘geek queen’, Helen O’Hara, that explores women’s roles – both in front of and behind the camera – since the birth of Hollywood, how those roles are reflected within wider society and what we can do to level the playing field. Hollywood was born just over a century ago, at a time of huge forward motion for women’s rights. With no rules in place to stop them, there were women who forged ahead in many areas of filmmaking. Yet, despite the work of early pioneers like Dorothy Arzner, Mabel Normand, Mary Pickford and Alice Guy-Blaché, it soon came to embody the same old sexist standards. Women found themselves fighting a system that fed on their talent, creativity and beauty but refused to pay them the same respect as their male contemporaries – until now... The tide has finally begun to turn. A new generation of women, both in front of and behind the camera, are making waves in the industry and are now shaping some of the biggest films to hit our screens. In Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film, film critic Helen O’Hara takes a closer look at the pioneering and talented women of Hollywood and their work in film since Hollywood began. And in understanding how women were largely written out of Hollywood’s own origin story, and how the films we watch are put together, we can finally see how to put an end to a picture that is so deeply unequal – and discover a multitude of stories out there just waiting to be told. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781472144430