Dead ringers : the remake in theory and practice / edited by Jennifer Forrest and Leonard R. Koos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Forrest, Jennifer, 1958-

Koos, Leonard R., 1958-

Series:

SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video

The SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film remakes--History and criticism.

Film remakes.

Physical Description:

ix, 369 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]

Contents:

Chapter 2 Twice-Told Tales: Disavowal and the Rhetoric of the Remake / Thomas Leitch 37

Chapter 3 Economy and Aesthetics in American Remakes of French Films / Michael Harney 63

Chapter 4 The "Personal" Touch: The Original, the Remake, and the Dupe in Early Cinema / Jennifer Forrest 89

Chapter 5 Sound Strategies: Lang's Rearticulation of Renoir / Tricia Welsch 127

Chapter 6 The Raven and the Nanny: The Remake as Crosscultural Encounter / Alan Williams 151

Chapter 7 Sadie Thompson Redux: Postwar Reintegration of the Wartime Wayward Woman / Jennifer Forrest 169

Chapter 8 Hiring Practices: Simenon/Duvivier/Leconte / Leonard R. Koos 203

Chapter 9 Twice Two: The Fly and Invasion of the Body Snatchers / Marty Roth 225

Chapter 10 Three Takes On Motherhood, Masculinity, and Marriage: Serreau's Trois Hommes et un couffin, Nimoy's Remake, and Ardolino's Sequel / Carolyn A. Durham 243

Chapter 11 Pretty Woman with a Gun: La Femme Nikita and the Textual Politics of "The Remake" / Laura Grindstaff 273

Appendix A Remaking Le Voile bleu: An Interview with Norman Corwin, Screenwriter for The Blue Veil / Jennifer Forrest 309

Appendix B Norman Corwin Letter to Jerry Wald 337.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0791451690

0791451704

OCLC:

45820938