Dead Ringers
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Dead Ringers

The Remake in Theory and Practice

  1. 379 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Dead Ringers

The Remake in Theory and Practice

About this book

Addresses the important role of remakes in film culture, from early cinema to contemporary Hollywood.

While the popular press has criticized movie remakes as signs of Hollywood's collective lack of imagination, the essays in Dead Ringers reveal the centrality and staying power of remakes as a formative genre in filmmaking. The contributors show that the practice of remaking films dates back to the origins of cinema and the evolution of film markets. In fact, remakes were never so prevalent as during the Classic Hollywood period, when filmmaking had achieved its greatest degree of industrialization, and they continue to play a crucial role in the development of film genres generally. Offering a variety of historical, commercial, theoretical, and cultural perspectives on the remake, Dead Ringers is a valuable resource for students of film history and theory, as well as those interested in the cultural politics of the late twentieth century.

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Table of contents

  1. DEADRINGERS: The Remake in Theory and Practice
  2. CONTENTS
  3. ILLUSTRATIONS
  4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  5. 1. Reviewing Remakes: An Introduction
  6. 2. Twice-Told Tales: Disavowal and the Rhetoric of the Remake
  7. 3. Economy and Aesthetics in American Remakes of French Films
  8. 4. The “Personal” Touch: The Original, the Remake, and the Dupe in Early Cinema
  9. 5. Sound Strategies: Lang’s Rearticulation of Renoir
  10. 6. The Raven and the Nanny: The Remake as Crosscultural Encounter
  11. 7. Sadie Thompson Redux: Postwar Reintegration of the Wartime Wayward Woman
  12. 8. Hiring Practices: Simenon/Duvivier/Leconte
  13. 9. Twice Two: The Fly and Invasion ofthe Body Snatchers
  14. 10. Three Takes On Motherhood, Masculinity, and Marriage: Serreau’s Trois Hommes et un couffin, Nimoy’s Remake, and Ardolino’s Sequel
  15. 11. Pretty Woman with a Gun: La Femme Nikita andthe Textual Politics of “The Remake”
  16. APPENDIX A: Remaking Le Voile bleu: An Interview with Norman Corwin, Screenwriter for The Blue Veil
  17. APPENDIX B: Norman Corwin Letter to Jerry Wald
  18. CONTRIBUTORS
  19. FILM TITLE INDEX
  20. NAME AND SUBJECT INDEX