Remakes and Remaking: Concepts - Media - Practices

by Rüdiger Heinze (Editor), Lucia Krämer (Editor)

Overview

From "Avatar" to danced versions of "Romeo and Juliet", from Bollywood films to "Star Wars Uncut": This book investigates film remakes as well as forms of remaking in other media, such as ballet and internet fan art. The case studies introduce readers to a variety of texts and remaking practices from different cultural spheres. The essays also discuss forms of remaking in relation to neighbouring phenomena like the sequel, prequel and (re-)adaptation. "Remakes and Remaking" thus provides a necessary and topical addition to the recent conceptual scholarship on intermediality, transmediality and adaptation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783837628944
Publication date:	07/15/2015
Series:	Cultural and Media Studies , #10
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Rüdiger Heinze (Prof. Dr.) teaches American Literature and Culture at TU Braunschweig. His research focuses on transmedial storytelling, dystopian thinking, and literatures of migration.
Lucia Krämer is Professor of British Studies at the University of Passau, Germany.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Remakes and Remaking - Preliminary Reflections Rüdigger Heinze Lucia Kramer 7

Intra-Medial Intracultural Remaking

The Remade Prequel - Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) Oliver Lindner 23

Exit Gender, Enter Race: Jonathan Demme's "Update" of The Manchurlan Candidate Michael Butter 41

(Re)Making Men in the 1950s and 2000s: Delmer Oaves's and James Mangold's 3:10 to Yuma Johannes Fehrle 57

Intra-Medial Transcultural Remaking

Hollywood Remade: New Approaches to Indian Remakes of Western Films Lucia Krämer 81

Hellish Departure? The Departed, Infernal Affairs and Globalized Film Cultures Martin Lüthe 97

Inter-Medial Remaking

The Remake as Re-adaptation of an English Classic: Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist on Film Till Kinzel 115

Romeo and Juliet Re-danced: Choreographic Remakings of Shakespeare's Tragedy Maria Marcsek-Fuchs 131

"Yes, Avatar is Dances with Wolves in space…sorta": Repetitions and Shades of Difference in Two Blockbusters Sabine N. Meyer 153

On the Ethics and Aesthetics of 'Remaking' in Web 2.0 Environments Martin Butler 171

List of Contributors 181

Editorial Reviews

"The true value of the volume lies in mapping out and problematizing the categories of remakes and in showing the complex ways in which remakes as cultural products are redefined to suit particular ideologies and economies. This expands existing discussions and highlights a number of questions that contemporary criticism will, in the long run, have to face."

Monika Pietrzak-Franger

"Für Einsteiger in die Remake-Thematik durchaus zu empfehlen."

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