Cycles, sequels, spin-offs, remakes, and reboots : multiplicities in film and television / edited by Amanda Ann Klein and R. Barton Palmer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klein, Amanda Ann, 1976- editor.

Palmer, R. Barton, 1946- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film sequels.

Film remakes--History and criticism.

Film remakes.

Film genres--United States.

Film genres.

Television remakes--History and criticism.

Television remakes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 357 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With sequels, prequels, remakes, spin-offs, or copies of successful films or franchises dominating film and television production, it sometimes seems as if Hollywood is incapable of making an original film or TV show. These textual pluralities or multiplicities-while loved by fans who flock to them in droves-tend to be dismissed by critics and scholars as markers of the death of high culture. Cycles, Sequels, Spin-offs, Remakes, and Reboots takes the opposite view, surveying a wide range of international media multiplicities for the first time to elucidate their importance for audiences, industrial practices, and popular culture. The essays in this volume offer a broad picture of the ways in which cinema and television have used multiplicities to streamline the production process, and to capitalize on and exploit viewer interest in previously successful and/or sensational story properties. An impressive lineup of established and emerging scholars talk seriously about forms of multiplicity that are rarely discussed as such, including direct-to-DVD films made in Nigeria, cross-cultural Japanese horror remakes, YouTube fan-generated trailer mash-ups, and 1970s animal revenge films. They show how considering the particular bonds that tie texts to one another allows us to understand more about the audiences for these texts and why they crave a version of the same story (or character or subject) over and over again. These findings demonstrate that, far from being lowbrow art, multiplicities are actually doing important cultural work that is very worthy of serious study.

Contents:

Introduction / Amanda Ann Klein and R. Barton Palmer

The kissing cycle, mashers, and (white) women in the American city / Amanda Ann Klein

Descended from Hercules: masculine anxiety in the peplum / Robert Rushing

The American postwar semidocumentary cycle: factual dramatizations / R. Barton Palmer

Cycle consciousness and the white audience in black film writing: the 1949-1950 "race problem" cycle and the African American press / Steven Doles

Vicious cycle: Jaws and revenge-of-nature films of the 1970s / Constantine Verevis

Familiar otherness: on the contemporary cross-cultural remake / Chelsey Crawford

Anime's dangerous innocents: millennial anxieties, gender crises, and the shåojo body as a weapon / Elizabeth Birmingham

It's only a film, isn't it? Policy paranoia thrillers of the War on Terror / Vincent M. Gaine

Doing Dumbledore: actor-character bonding and accretionary performance / Murray Pomerance

A Lagosian Lady Gaga: cross-cultural identification in Nollywood's anti-biopic cycle / Noah Tsika

Re-solving crimes: a cycle of TV detective partnerships / Sarah Kornfield

Smart TV: Showtime's "bad mommies" cycle / Claire Perkins

My generation(s): cycles, branding, and renewal in E4's Skins / Faye Woods

Extended attractions: recut trailers, film promotion, and audience desire / Kathleen Williams

Retro-remaking: the 1980s film cycle in contemporary Hollywood cinema / Kathleen Loock

I can't lead this vacation anymore: mumblecore's American man / Amy Borden

Serialized killers: prebooting horror in Bates Motel and Hannibal / Andrew Scahill.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781477308189 (electronic book)

9781477308189

1477308180

OCLC:

1450432291