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Book SynopsisOffering a variety of case studies in which films have been remade across national borders, Transnational Film Remakes provides an analysis of cinematic remaking that moves beyond Hollywood to address the truly global nature of this phenomenon.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Transnational Film Remakes, lain Robert Smith and Constantine Verevis PART I: GENRES AND TRADITIONS; 1. Disrupting the Remake: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Lucy Mazdon; 2. Fritz Lang Remakes Jean Renoir for Hollywood; Film Noir in Three National Voices, R. Barton Palmer; 3. The Cultural Politics of Re-making Spanish Horror films in the Twenty-First Century: Quarantine and Come Out and Play, Andy Willis; 4. For the Dead Travel Fast: The Transnational Afterlives of Dracula, lain Robert Smith PART II: GENDER AND PERFORMANCE; 5. The Chinese Cinematic Remake as Transnational Appeal: Zhang Yimou's A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, Kenneth Chan; 6. Transformation and Glamour in the Cross-Cultural Makeover: Return to Eden, Khoon Bhari Maang and the Avenging Woman in Popular Hindi Cinema, Michael Lawrence; 7. Translating Cool: Cinematic Exchange between Hong Kong, Hollywood, and Bollywood, Rashna Wadia Richards; 8. Trading Places: Das doppelte Lottchen and The ParentTrap, Constantine Verevis PART III: AUTEURS AND CRITICS; 9. A Tale of Two Balloons: Intercultural Cinema and Transnational Nostalgia in Le voyage du ballon rouge, David Scott Diffrient and Carl R. Burgchardt; 10. Crazed Heat: Nakahira Ko and theTransnational Self-Remake, David Desser; 11. Remaking Funny Games: Michael Haneke's Cross-Cultural Experiment, Kathleen Loock; 12. Reinterpreting Revenge: Authorship, Excess, and the Critical Reception of Spike Lee's Oldboy, Daniel Martin; 13. TheTransnational Film Remake in the American Press, Daniel Herbert; Contributors; Notes.
