Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and PracticeJennifer Forrest, Leonard R. Koos 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. |
Contents
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Disavowal and the Rhetoric of the Remake | 37 |
3 Economy and Aesthetics in American Remakes of French Films | 63 |
The Original the Remake and the Dupe in Early Cinema | 89 |
Langs Rearticulation of Renoir | 127 |
The Remake as Crosscultural Encounter | 151 |
Postwar Reintegration of the Wartime Wayward Woman | 169 |
SimenonDuvivierLeconte | 203 |
Serreaus Trois Hommes et un couffin Nimoys Remake and Ardolinos Sequel | 243 |
La Femme Nikita andthe Textual Politics of The Remake | 273 |
Remaking Le Voile bleu An Interview with Norman Corwin Screenwriter for The Blue Veil | 309 |
Norman Corwin Letter to Jerry Wald | 337 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 341 |
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The Fly and Invasion ofthe Body Snatchers | 225 |
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Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice Jennifer Forrest,Leonard R. Koos Limited preview - 2002 |
Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice Jennifer Forrest,Leonard R. Koos Limited preview - 2002 |
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