Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice (Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video)

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 as during the Classic Hollywood period, when filmmaking had achieved its greatest degree of industrialization, and they continue to play a crucial role in the development of film genres generally. Offering a variety of historical, commercial, theoretical, and cultural perspectives on the remake, Dead Ringers is a valuable resource for students of film history and theory, as well as those interested in the cultural politics of the late twentieth century." Machine Generated Contents Note: Chapter One 1 -- Reviewing Remakes: An Introduction -- Jennifer Forrest And Leonard R. Koos -- Chapter Two 37 -- Twice-told Tales: Disavowal And The Rhetoric Of The Remake -- Thomas Leitch -- Chapter Three 63 -- Economy And Aesthetics In American Remakes Of French Films -- Michael Harney -- Chapter Four 89 -- The Personal Touch: -- The Original, The Remake, And The Dupe In Early Cinema -- Jennifer Forrest -- Chapter Five 127 -- Sound Strategies: Lang's Rearticulation Of Renoir -- Tricia Welsch -- Chapter Six 151 -- The Raven And The Nanny: The Remake As Crosscultural Encounter -- Alan Williams -- Chapter Seven 169 -- Sadie Thompson Redux: -- Postwar Reintegration Of The Wartime Wayward Woman -- Jennifer Forrest -- Chapter Eight 203 -- Hiring Practices: Simenon/duvivier/leconte -- Leonard R. Koos -- Chapter Nine 225 -- Twice Two: The Fly And Invasion Of The Body Snatchers -- Marty Roth -- Chapter Ten 243 -- Three Takes On Motherhood, Masculinity, And Marriage: -- Serreau's Trois Hommes Et Un Couffin, Nimoy's Remake, -- And Ardolino's Sequel -- Carolyn A. Durham -- Chapter Eleven 273 -- Pretty Woman With A Gun: La Femme Nikita -- And The Textual Politics Ofthe Remake -- Laura Grindstaff -- Appendix A -- Remaking Le Voile Bleu: -- An Interview With Norman Corwin, Screenwriter For The Blue Veil 309 -- Jennifer Forrest -- Appendix B -- Norman Corwin Letter To Jerry Wald 337 -- List Of Contributors 341 -- Film Title Index 343 -- Name And Subject Index 353. Edited By Jennifer Forrest And Leonard R. Koos. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.