Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox

by D. Varndell

Overview

Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox explores the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze using the framework of Hollywood's current obsession with remaking and rebooting classic and foreign films. Through an analysis of cinematic repetition and difference, the book approaches remakes from a range of philosophical perspectives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349488346
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Edition description:	1st ed. 2014
Pages:	219
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Daniel Varndell is an independent scholar who teaches cultural and critical theory in English and Film Studies. This is his first book, and it marks the culmination of a long period of research on the subject of repetition and difference in Hollywood cinema. It will be complemented by a shorter, companion piece of work on David Lynch and Deleuze's figure of the 'dark precursor'.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Remake Paradox PART I: THE PROBLEM OF CHOICE 1. Shot For Shot Remakes 2. Transnational Remaking PART II: THE PROBLEM OF DISTANCE 3. The Vicious Circles of Postmodern Representations 4. Remake Series and the 'Case' of Film Noir PART III: THE PROBLEM OF THE EXCEPTION 5. The Other Side of Remakes 6. The Grandfather Paradox Conclusion: Encore Deleuze Bibliography Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox re-makes Deleuze in order to re-think cinematic re-makes. It is a strikingly original piece of work about the paradoxes of the apparent unoriginality of re-makes. It is at once an elegant repudiation of a number of bad readings of Deleuze (particularly by Badiou and Zizek) and a vitally fresh contribution to the field of cinema studies." - Ian Buchanan, Editor, Deleuze Studies

Editorial Reviews

Daniel Varndell’s Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox is an innovative book that gets past the usual argument that the original film is the best version and the remake an ill-made copy. … Varndell’s book is a mandatory text for those interested in remakes and Deleuzian film-philosophy. … With Hollywood’s film industry turned into a constant remake production machine, Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox certainly provides a solid framework through which we can understand its implications.” (María Victoria Gomez Vila, Film-Philosophy, Vol. 21 (1), 2017)

From the Publisher