Defining the sequel, accounting for its reception: analyzing the Pixar corpus
At present, there is a lack of consensus on the form of the sequel, which makes it difficult to find the reasons for audience acceptance of sequels as sequels. The present article inquires into the form of the sequel, analyzes a corpus consisting of the eight Pixar sequels up to "Toy Story 4&qu...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) |
| Repositorio: | e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/66462 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10017/66462 https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2021.1890974 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Sequel Pixar Seriality Review aggregator websites Audiences Filología Philology |
| Sumario: | At present, there is a lack of consensus on the form of the sequel, which makes it difficult to find the reasons for audience acceptance of sequels as sequels. The present article inquires into the form of the sequel, analyzes a corpus consisting of the eight Pixar sequels up to "Toy Story 4" and compares the result with audience reception. To do so, we first refine the understanding of sequels as forms of narrative expansion by comparing sequels with their contender for expansion, seriality. In the absence of a formal modelling of sequels, we adapt a "toolkit"; prepared for seriality, which yields four areas of analysis: iteration, multiplicity, world-building and character. We then apply these four areas to each Pixar sequel and compare each sequel with its source movie and the sequels of the same franchise (where a franchise consists of more than one sequel). Finally, we operationalize popularity of sequels as the ranking of sequels in review aggregators and then compare the results of our analysis with the ranking. In doing this, the article proposes ways to define sequels and analyze them in formal terms to understand their reception better. |
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