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Prequel, the Glossary

A prequel is a literary, dramatic or cinematic work whose story precedes that of a previous work, by focusing on events that occur before the original narrative.^[1]

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Prequels

Anthony Boucher

William Anthony Parker White (August 21, 1911 – April 29, 1968), better known by his pen name Anthony Boucher, was an American author, critic, and editor who wrote several classic mystery novels, short stories, science fiction, and radio dramas.

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Backstory

A backstory, background story, or background is a set of events invented for a plot, preceding and leading up to that plot.

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Batman Begins

Batman Begins is a 2005 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan and written by Nolan and David S. Goyer.

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Butch and Sundance: The Early Days

Butch and Sundance: The Early Days is a 1979 American Western film and prequel to the 1969 film.

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C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian.

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Casino Royale (2006 film)

Casino Royale is a 2006 spy film, the twenty-first in the Eon Productions ''James Bond'' series, and the third screen adaptation of Ian Fleming's 1953 novel of the same name.

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Christopher Nolan

Sir Christopher Edward Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is a British and American filmmaker.

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Christopher Tolkien

Christopher John Reuel Tolkien (21 November 1924 – 16 January 2020) was an English and naturalised French academic editor.

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Cities in Flight

Cities in Flight is a four-volume series of science fiction novels and short stories by American writer James Blish, originally published between 1950 and 1962, which were first known collectively as the "Okie" novels.

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Continuity (fiction)

In fiction, continuity is the consistency of the characteristics of people, plot, objects, and places seen by the audience over some period of time.

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Cypria

The Cypria (Κύπρια Kúpria; Latin: Cypria) is a lost epic poem of ancient Greek literature, which has been attributed to Stasinus and was quite well known in classical antiquity and fixed in a received text, but which subsequently was lost to view. Prequel and Cypria are prequels.

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Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press is a scholarly publisher of academic books and journals, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Escape from the Planet of the Apes is a 1971 American science fiction film directed by Don Taylor and written by Paul Dehn.

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Filmsite

Filmsite is a film-review website established in 1996 by senior editor and film critic-historian Tim Dirks, and continues to be managed and edited by him for over two decades.

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Iliad

The Iliad (Iliás,; " about Ilion (Troy)") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a 1984 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a script by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, based on a story by George Lucas.

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Intertextuality

Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text, either through deliberate compositional strategies such as quotation, allusion, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche or parody,Gerard Genette (1997) Paratexts Hallo, William W. (2010) The World's Oldest Literature: Studies in Sumerian Belles-Lettres Cancogni, Annapaola (1985) pp.203-213 or by interconnections between similar or related works perceived by an audience or reader of the text.

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Irony

Irony, in its broadest sense, is the juxtaposition of what on the surface appears to be the case and what is actually the case or to be expected.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist.

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James Blish

James Benjamin Blish was an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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List of prequels

This is a list of prequels. Prequel and list of prequels are prequels.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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M. E. Sharpe

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the UK and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster).

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Merriam-Webster

Merriam-Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books and is mostly known for its dictionaries.

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Michael Corleone

Michael Corleone is a fictional character and the protagonist of Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather.

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Neologism

In linguistics, a neologism (also known as a coinage) is any newly formed word, term, or phrase that nevertheless has achieved popular or institutional recognition and is becoming accepted into mainstream language.

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Origin story

In fiction, an origin story is an account or backstory revealing how a character or group of people become a protagonist or antagonist.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes is a science fiction media franchise consisting of films, books, television series, comics, and other media about a post-apocalyptic world in which humans and intelligent apes clash for control as the dominant species.

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Precedent

Precedent is a principle or rule established in a legal case that becomes authoritative to a court or other tribunal when deciding subsequent cases with similar legal issues or facts.

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R. F. Delderfield

Ronald Frederick Delderfield (12 February 1912 – 24 June 1972) was an English novelist and dramatist, some of whose works have been adapted for television and film.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman.

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Reboot (fiction)

In serial fiction, the term "reboot" signifies a new start to an established fictional universe, work, or series. Prequel and Reboot (fiction) are film and video terminology and television terminology.

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Return of the Jedi

Return of the Jedi (also known as Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi is a 1983 American epic space opera film that is a sequel to Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980). It is the third installment in the original ''Star Wars'' trilogy and the sixth chronological film in the "Skywalker Saga".

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prequel

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