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Transnational Film Remakes
About this book
What happens when a film is remade in another national context? How do notions of translation, adaptation and localisation help us understand the cultural dynamics of these shifts, and in what ways does a transnational perspective offer us a deeper understanding of film remaking? Bringing together a range of international scholars, Transnational Film Remakes is the first edited collection to specifically focus on the phenomenon of cross-cultural remakes. Using a variety of case studies, from Hong Kong remakes of Japanese cinema to Bollywood remakes of Australian television, this book provides an analysis of cinematic remaking that moves beyond Hollywood to address the truly global nature of this phenomenon. Looking at iconic contemporary titles such as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Oldboy, as well as classics like La Bête Humaine and La Chienne, this book interrogates the fluid and dynamic ways in which texts are adapted and reworked across national borders to provide a distinctive new model for understanding these global cultural borrowings.
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Table of contents
- TRANSNATIONAL FILM REMAKES
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Traditions in World Cinema
- Introduction
- PART I Genres and Traditions
- 1. Disrupting the Remake
- 2. Fritz Lang Remakes Jean Renoir for Hollywood
- 3. The Cultural Politics of Remaking Spanish Horror films in the Twenty-First Century
- 4. ‘For the Dead Travel Fast’
- PART II Gender and Performance
- 5. The Chinese Cinematic Remake as Transnational Appeal
- 6. Transformation and Glamour in the Cross-Cultural Makeover
- 7. Translating Cool
- 8. Trading Places
- PART III Auteurs and Critics
- 9. A Tale of Two Balloons
- 10. ‘Crazed Heat’
- 11. Remaking Funny Games
- 12. Reinterpreting Revenge
- 13. The Transnational Film Remake in the American Press
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index