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Dead ringers : the remake in theory and practice /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Koos, Leonard R., 1958-, Forrest, Jennifer, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002.
Colección:SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • DEAD RINGERS: The Remake in Theory and Practice
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1. Reviewing Remakes: An Introduction
  • 2. Twice-Told Tales: Disavowal and the Rhetoric of the Remake
  • 3. Economy and Aesthetics in American Remakes of French Films
  • 4. The Personal Touch: The Original, the Remake, and the Dupe in Early Cinema
  • 5. Sound Strategies: Langa's Rearticulation of Renoir
  • 6. The Raven and the Nanny: The Remake as Cross cultural Encounter
  • 7. Sadie Thompson Redux: Postwar Reintegration of the Wartime Wayward Woman
  • 8. Hiring Practices: Simenon/Duvivier/Leconte9. Twice Two: The Fly and Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  • 10. Three Takes On Motherhood, Masculinity, and Marriage: Serreau's Trois Hommes et un couffin, Nimoy's Remake, and Ardolino's Sequel
  • 11. Pretty Woman with a Gun: La Femme Nikita and the Textual Politics of The Remake
  • APPENDIX A: Remaking Le Voile bleu: An Interview with Norman Corwin, Screenwriter for The Blue Veil
  • APPENDIX B: Norman Corwin Letter to Jerry Wald
  • CONTRIBUTORS
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