List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Carolyn Jess-Cooke and Constantine Verevis 1. Redefining the Sequel: The Case of the (Living) Dead Constantine Verevis 2. Of "True" Sequels: The Four Daughters Movies, or the Series That Wasn't Jennifer Forrest 3. Sequel-Ready Fiction: After Austen's Happily Ever After Thomas Leitch 4. Before and After, Before Before and After: Godfather I, II , and III R. Barton Palmer 5. Sequelizing Hollywood: The American "Smart" Film Claire Perkins 6. From Remake to Sequel: Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Twelve Joyce Goggin 7.

Decent Burial or Miraculous Resurrection: Serenity, Mourning, and Sequels to Dead Television Shows Ina Rae Hark 8. Prequel: The "Afterwardsness" of the Sequel Paul Sutton 9. Circulations: Technology and Discourse in The Ring Intertext Daniel Herbert 10. Sequelizing the Superhero: Postmillennial Anxiety and Cultural "Need" Simon McEnteggart 11. Before and After and Right Now: Sequels in the Digital Era Nicholas Rombes 12. Sequelizing Spectatorship and Building Up the Kingdom: The Case of Pirates of the Caribbean, Or, How a Theme Park Attraction Spawned a Multibillion-Dollar Film Franchise Carolyn Jess-Cooke Works Cited List of Contributors Index.