This series provides a forum for introducing, analysing and theorising a broad spectrum of serial screen formats - including franchises, series, serials, sequels and remakes - from various perspectives: historical and contemporary, national and transnational, across old and new media platforms. Over and above individual texts that happen to be serialised, the book series takes a guiding focus on seriality as an aesthetic and industrial principle that has shaped the narrative logic, socio-cultural function and economic identity of screen texts across more than a century of cinema, television and ‘new’ media.