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Anticipating the reboot: teasing Top Gun 2

Grainge, Paul

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Daniel Herbert
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Constantine Verevis
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Abstract

This chapter is about the anticipation of Top Gun: Maverick as a reboot. The focus, quite purposefully, is on the reboot before it was released or the momentum of advance marketing had begun to build. While Thomas Elsaesser has likened the arrival of a blockbuster to the turbulence of a weather front, this chapter considers the more gradual changes in atmospheric pressure that precede the Hollywood reboot; it is about the tease, the rumour, and the anticipation of the reboot as discursive project. Contributing to work on the paratextual constellations that prefigure media events, I focus on the period in the mid-2010s leading up to the first official publicity still for Top Gun: Maverick.

Citation

Grainge, P. (2020). Anticipating the reboot: teasing Top Gun 2. In D. Herbert, & C. Verevis (Eds.), Film reboots (205-218). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Publication Date Sep 15, 2020
Deposit Date Oct 13, 2020
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 205-218
Series Title Screen serialities
Book Title Film reboots
Chapter Number 13
ISBN 9781474451369
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4613982
Publisher URL https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-film-reboots-hb.html
Contract Date Jun 8, 2020