Hollywood remaking : how film remakes, sequels, and franchises shape industry and culture / Kathleen Loock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loock, Kathleen, 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film remakes--History and criticism.

Film remakes.

Film sequels--History and criticism.

Film sequels.

Motion picture audiences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (471 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Loock, Kathleen Hollywood Remaking

ISBN:

9780520976221

0520976223

OCLC:

1398510106