Hollywood Remaking : How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture

Loock, Kathleen

University of California Press（2024/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 320 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520375765
• DDC分類 791.436

Full Description

From the inception of cinema to today's franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing film production. Hollywood Remaking challenges the categorical dismissal in film criticism of remakes, sequels, and franchises by probing what these formats really do when they revisit familiar stories. Kathleen Loock argues that movies from Hollywood's large-scale system of remaking use serial repetition and variation to constantly negotiate past and present, explore stability and change, and actively shape how the film industry, cinema, and audiences imagine themselves. Far from a simple profit-making exercise, remaking is an inherently dynamic practice situated between the film industry's economic logic and the cultural imagination. Although remaking developed as a business practice in the United States, this book shows that it also shapes cinematic aesthetics and cultural debates, fosters film-historical knowledge, and promotes feelings of generational belonging among audiences.

Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations 
List of Abbreviations 
Acknowledgments 

Introduction 

PART I A THEORY OF HOLLYWOOD REMAKING
1. Making Sense of Repetition 
2. Hollywood's Usable Past 

PART II FILM REMAKES
3. Cinematic Pasts and Presents 
4. The Remake as Archive 

PART III SERIES, SEQUELS, AND FRANCHISES
5. Cinematic Seriality from "B" to "A" 
6. From Sequelitis to the Forever Franchise 
Conclusion: Rebooting the Past 

Notes 
Selected Bibliography 
Index