Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice

Addresses the important role of remakes in film culture, from early cinema to contemporary Hollywood.

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 the origins of cinema and the evolution of film markets. In fact, remakes were never so prevalent a...