The Hollywood Meme: Transnational Adaptations in World Cinema

by Iain Robert Smith

Overview

Did you know that a Turkish remake of The Exorcist replaced the Catholicism with Islam? Or that James Bond and Batman team up together in the 1966 Filipino film James Batman? Or that a Bollywood remake of Memento has become one of the biggest box-office successes in India of all time?

The Hollywood Meme is the first comprehensive study of the transnational adaptations of Hollywood movies that have appeared throughout world cinema. With case studies from the film industries of Turkey, India and the Philippines, Iain Robert Smith shows how reworked versions of Hollywood blockbusters like E.T., The Godfather, Spider-man and Star Wars can complicate prevailing accounts of Hollywood's global impact, and help provide a new model for interrogating transnational flows and exchanges.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748677467
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	11/15/2016
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Iain Robert Smith is Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College London. He is co-editor of Transnational Film Remakes and Media Across Borders, co-chair of the SCMS Transnational Cinemas Scholarly Interest Group, and co-investigator on the AHRC-funded research network Media Across Borders.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

1. Tracing The Hollywood Meme: Towards a Comparative Model of Transnational Adaptation

2. Hollywood and the Popular Cinema of Turkey
2a Uc Dev Adam (1973) // Spiderman
2b Turist Ömer Uzay Yolunda (1973) // Star Trek
2c Seytan (1974) // The Exorcist
2d Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam (1982) // Star Wars

3. Hollywood and the Popular Cinema of the Philippines
3a Dynamite Johnson (1978) // The Six Million Dollar Man
3b For Y'Ur Height Only (1982) // James Bond
3c Alyas Batman en Robin (1993) // Batman
3d Darna: Ang pagbabalik (1994) // Wonder Woman

4. Hollywood and the Popular Cinema of India
4a Koi... Mil Gaya (2003) // E.T.
4b Sarkar (2005) // The Godfather
4c Heyy Babyy (2007) // Three Men and a Baby
4d Ghajini (2008) // Memento

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

In its illuminating look at adaptations, copies, and remakes of Hollywood texts in the popular film industries of Turkey, the Philippines, and India, Smith¹s book challenges its readers to reconsider preconceived notions of how cultural hegemonies operate, arguing for and unearthing more nuanced and reciprocal forms of interaction and cross-fertilisation between Hollywood and global film culture. Sharply argued and offering intriguing insights into the stranger realms of cultural appropriation, this book is a delight to read and an important intervention into popular genre studies and studies of transnational practices in world cinema.

Professor Tim Bergfelder (University of Southampton, UK)

Editorial Reviews

An interesting read for academics working in (popular) genre studies, studies of transnational adaptations and remake studies, as well as for people who want to know more about the Bollywood remake of ‘Memento’, or the teaming up of James Bond and Batman in the Filipino ‘James Batman’.

Communications - Eduard Cuelenaere

In its illuminating look at adaptations, copies, and remakes of Hollywood texts in the popular film industries of Turkey, the Philippines, and India, Smith¹s book challenges its readers to reconsider preconceived notions of how cultural hegemonies operate, arguing for and unearthing more nuanced and reciprocal forms of interaction and cross-fertilisation between Hollywood and global film culture. Sharply argued and offering intriguing insights into the stranger realms of cultural appropriation, this book is a delight to read and an important intervention into popular genre studies and studies of transnational practices in world cinema.

Professor Tim Bergfelder

Smith’s histories should provide ample inspiration for new theoretical and national border and boundary crossings, and for new forms of creative and hybrid thinking. Like any exemplary franchise instalment, Smith’s book works just as well in anticipation as it does in execution, hopefully with more histories, more sequels, more spinoffs, and more extensions coming soon.

SCREEN - Kyle Meikle

"An interesting read for academics working in (popular) genre studies, studies of transnational adaptations and remake studies, as well as for people who want to know more about the Bollywood remake of 'Memento', or the teaming up of James Bond and Batman in the Filipino 'James Batman'". — Eduard Cuelenaere, Ghent University, Communications

"Smith's histories should provide ample inspiration for new theoretical and national border and boundary crossings, and for new forms of creative and hybrid thinking. Like any exemplary franchise instalment, Smith's book works just as well in anticipation as it does in execution, hopefully with more histories, more sequels, more spinoffs, and more extensions coming soon."— Kyle Meikle, SCREEN

From the Publisher