Hollywood Remaking

How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-520-37577-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

From the inception of cinema to today’s franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing film production. Hollywood Remaking challenges the categorical dismissal in film criticism of remakes, sequels, and franchises by probing what these formats really do when they revisit familiar stories. Kathleen Loock argues that movies from Hollywood’s large-scale system of remaking use serial repetition and variation to constantly negotiate past and present, explore stability and change, and actively shape how the film industry, cinema, and audiences imagine themselves. Far from a simple profit-making exercise, remaking is an inherently dynamic practice situated between the film industry’s economic logic and the cultural imagination. Although remaking developed as a business practice in the United States, this book shows that it also shapes cinematic aesthetics and cultural debates, fosters film-historical knowledge, and promotes feelings of generational belonging among audiences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loock, Kathleen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I A THEORY OF HOLLYWOOD REMAKING
1. Making Sense of Repetition

2. Hollywood’s Usable Past

PART II FILM REMAKES
3. Cinematic Pasts and Presents

4. The Remake as Archive

PART III SERIES, SEQUELS, AND FRANCHISES
5. Cinematic Seriality from “B” to “A”

6. From Sequelitis to the Forever Franchise

Conclusion: Rebooting the Past

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kathleen Loock is Professor of American Studies and Media Studies at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, where she also directs the Emmy Noether Research Group “Hollywood Memories: Cinematic Remaking and the Construction of Global Movie Generations” (https://hollywood-memories.com/).