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Film reboots / edited by Daniel Herbert and Constantine Verevis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herbert, Daniel, Author.
- Series:
- Screen serialities.
- Edinburgh scholarship online.
- Screen serialities
- Edinburgh scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Film remakes--History and criticism.
- Film remakes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Bringing together the latest developments in the study of serial formatting practices - remakes, sequels, series - 'Film Reboots' is the first edited collection to specifically focus on the new millennial phenomenon of rebooting. Through a set of vibrant case studies, this collection investigates rebooting as a practice that seeks to remake an entire film series or franchise, with ambitions that are at once respectful and revisionary. Examining such notable examples as Batman, Ghostbusters, and Star Trek, among others, this collection contends with some of the most important features of contemporary film and media culture today.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Film Reboots
- Contributors
- Part I Industry and Commerce
- 1 Rethinking the ‘Supersystem’: Film Reboots and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- 2 Live Long and Prosper: Rebooting Star Trek and Reimagining Fandom
- 3 The Many Reboots of the Batman
- Part II Structure and Narrative
- 4 The Edge of Reality: Replicating Blade Runner
- 5 Gender, Genre and the Reboot: From Ocean’s 11/Eleven to Ocean’s 8/Eight
- 6 Understanding Twin Peaks: The Return as a ‘Film Reboot’ via Anti-Franchise Discourses Within Media Franchising
- 7 All This Has Happened Before: Mythic Repetition in the Film-to-Television Reboot
- Part III Politics and Identity
- 8 Resistance and Empire: Star Wars and the Social Justice Reboot
- 9 Rebooting the Politics of the Sports Melodrama: Creed vs Rocky
- 10 Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot
- Part IV Fans and Audiences
- 11 Reboot, Requel, Legacyquel: Jurassic World and the Nostalgia Franchise
- 12 World-building, Retconning and Legacy Rebooting: Alien and Contemporary Media Franchise Strategies
- 13 Anticipating the Reboot: Teasing Top Gun 2
- 14 A Dark Knight on Elm Street: Discursive Regimes of (Sub)Cultural Value, Paratextual Bonding, and the Perils of Remaking and Rebooting Canonical Horror Cinema
- Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 10, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 9781474490641
- 1474490646
- 9781474451383
- 1474451381
- OCLC:
- 1306538120
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