Hollywood remakes, Deleuze and the grandfather paradox / Daniel Varndell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Varndell, Daniel, 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Film remakes--United States--History and criticism.

Film remakes.

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995--Criticism and interpretation.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 219 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

While commercially successful, Hollywood remakes have never been as popular in academia as with cinema audiences. With some notable exceptions, the subject of the Hollywood remake in Film Studies is less a key debate, more a "straw man" evoked to denounce the loss of original filmmaking. With a particular emphasis on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, as well as his often difficult relationship with psychoanalysis, Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox offers a new philosophical approach to cinematic remaking. By moving away from a "spot the difference" approach, it shows how cinematic repetition often articulates the same problems in different ways, just as it expresses core differences in similar ways. The book will appeal to anyone interested in Deleuzian Film Theory, Remake Studies or the film-philosophy subjects of identity and time, difference and repetition. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: the remake paradox

The problem of choice. Shot for shot remakes

Transnational remaking

The problem of distance. The vicious circles of postmodern representations

Remake series and the 'case' of film noir

The problem of the exception. The other side of remakes

The grandfather paradox

Conclusion: encore Deleuze.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137408594

1137408596

OCLC:

883513343