Origin Story as a Serial Form
M. Night Shyamalan's Eastrail 177 Trilogy
Keywords:
origin story, storyworld, serial cinemaAbstract
The essay analyzes M. Night Shyamalan’s Eastrail 177 trilogy as a boundary case of contemporary cinematic seriality. Through narratological, formal, and production-oriented analyses, the study investigates the tension between auteur cinema and blockbuster logics, interpreting the retroactive construction of the narrative universe as a metacinematic reflection on the forms of serial storytelling, and articulating the trilogy as a critical reflection on the politics of the contemporary image.
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