The third volume in Michael Betancourt's Routledge trilogy on title sequence semiotics. Building on Genette's paratext theory — the same foundation as Stanitzek's Cinema Journal article — Betancourt analyses how title sequences function as paranarrative: simultaneously crediting the production and preparing the audience for what follows. Examples span White Zombie (1931) through Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017).
The most conceptually accessible of the three volumes, and the most directly connected to the broader academic literature on paratexts and film theory.