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This is the first book to provide a comprehensive and systematic account of the phenomenon of cinematic remaking. Drawing upon recent theories of genre and intertextuality, Film Remakes describes remaking as both an elastic concept and a complex situation, one enabled and limited by the interrelated roles and practices of industry, critics and audiences. This approach to remaking is developed across three broad sections: the first, remaking as industrial category, deals with issues of production, including commerce and authors; the second, remaking as textual category, considers genre, plots and structures; and the third, remaking as critical category, investigates issues of reception, including audiences and institutions. The film remake emerges as a particular case of repetition, a function of cinematic and discursive fields that is maintained by historically specific practices, such as copyright law and authorship, canon formation and media literacy, film criticism and re-viewing. These points are made through the lively discussion of numerous historical and contemporary examples, including the remaking of classics (Double Indemnity, All That Heaven Allows, Psycho), foreign art-films (Yojimbo, Solaris, Le Samourai), cult movies (Gun Crazy, Planet of the Apes, Dawn of the Dead), and television properties (Batman, The Addams Family, Charlie's Angels).

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: Film Remakes
• Author: Constantine Verevis
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9780748621866
• ISBN: 0748621865
• ID: 04460402
• Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Weight: 450 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. November 2005

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