Transnational Film Remakes by Iain Robert Smith (English) Paperback Book

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Bringing together a range of international scholars, Transnational Film Remakes is the first edited collection to specifically focus on the phenomenon of cross-cultural remakes.

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What happens when a film is remade in another national context? How do notions of translation, adaptation and localisation help us understand the cultural dynamics of these shifts, and in what ways does a transnational perspective offer us a deeper understanding of film remaking? Bringing together a range of international scholars, Transnational Film Remakes is the first edited collection to specifically focus on the phenomenon of cross-cultural remakes. Using a variety of case studies, from Hong Kong remakes of Japanese cinema to Bollywood remakes of Australian television, this book provides an analysis of cinematic remaking that moves beyond Hollywood to address the truly global nature of this phenomenon. Looking at iconic contemporary titles such as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Oldboy, as well as classics like La Bte Humaine and La Chienne, this book interrogates the fluid and dynamic ways in which texts are adapted and reworked across national borders to provide a distinctive new model for understanding these global cultural borrowings.

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'An excellent, historically and geographically wide-ranging collection of original work on the phenomenon of transnational film remakes and related socio-cultural issues. The editors and contributors succeed in drilling down deep in their insightful investigations of the complexities involved in these global cinematic acts of translation and relocation.'Catherine Grant, University of SussexWhat happens when a film is remade in another national context? How do notions of translation, adaptation and localisation help us understand the cultural dynamics of these shifts, and in what ways does a transnational perspective offer us a deeper understanding of film remaking? Bringing together a range of international scholars, Transnational Film Remakes is the first edited collection to specifically focus on the phenomenon of cross-cultural remakes. Using a variety of case studies, from Hong Kong remakes of Japanese cinema to Bollywood remakes of Australian television, this volume provides an analysis of cinematic remaking that moves beyond Hollywood to address the truly global nature of this phenomenon. Looking at iconic contemporary titles such as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Oldboy, as well as classics like La B

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'An excellent, historically and geographically wide-ranging collection of original work on the phenomenon of transnational film remakes and related socio-cultural issues. The editors and contributors succeed in drilling down deep in their insightful investigations of the complexities involved in these global cinematic acts of translation and relocation.'Catherine Grant, University of SussexWhat happens when a film is remade in another national context? How do notions of translation, adaptation and localisation help us understand the cultural dynamics of these shifts, and in what ways does a transnational perspective offer us a deeper understanding of film remaking? Bringing together a range of international scholars, Transnational Film Remakes is the first edited collection to specifically focus on the phenomenon of cross-cultural remakes.Using a variety of case studies, from Hong Kong remakes of Japanese cinema to Bollywood remakes of Australian television, this volume provides an analysis of cinematic remaking that moves beyond Hollywood to address the truly global nature of this phenomenon. Looking at iconic contemporary titles such as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Oldboy, as well as classics like La B

Author Biography

lain Robert Smith is Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College London. Constantine Verevis is Associate Professor in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Melbourne.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Transnational Film Remakes, lain Robert Smith and Constantine Verevis PART I: GENRES AND TRADITIONS; 1. Disrupting the Remake: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Lucy Mazdon; 2. Fritz Lang Remakes Jean Renoir for Hollywood; Film Noir in Three National Voices, R. Barton Palmer; 3. The Cultural Politics of Re-making Spanish Horror films in the Twenty-First Century: Quarantine and Come Out and Play, Andy Willis; 4. For the Dead Travel Fast: The Transnational Afterlives of Dracula, lain Robert Smith PART II: GENDER AND PERFORMANCE; 5. The Chinese Cinematic Remake as Transnational Appeal: Zhang Yimou's A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, Kenneth Chan; 6. Transformation and Glamour in the Cross-Cultural Makeover: Return to Eden, Khoon Bhari Maang and the Avenging Woman in Popular Hindi Cinema, Michael Lawrence; 7. Translating Cool: Cinematic Exchange between Hong Kong, Hollywood, and Bollywood, Rashna Wadia Richards; 8. Trading Places: Das doppelte Lottchen and The ParentTrap, Constantine Verevis PART III: AUTEURS AND CRITICS; 9. A Tale of Two Balloons: Intercultural Cinema and Transnational Nostalgia in Le voyage du ballon rouge, David Scott Diffrient and Carl R. Burgchardt; 10. Crazed Heat: Nakahira Ko and theTransnational Self-Remake, David Desser; 11. Remaking Funny Games: Michael Haneke's Cross-Cultural Experiment, Kathleen Loock; 12. Reinterpreting Revenge: Authorship, Excess, and the Critical Reception of Spike Lee's Oldboy, Daniel Martin; 13. TheTransnational Film Remake in the American Press, Daniel Herbert; Contributors; Notes.

Review

Transnational Film Remakes not only succeeds in providing great explanations of complex issues, but, and probably more importantly, raises new thought-provoking questions. Therefore, it will be an interesting read for scholars working in transnational (remake) studies, or more broadly in adaptation studies, but equally for everyone interested in film studies and the recycling of cultural artefacts.'--Eduard Cuelenaere "Communications"

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What happens when a film is remade in another national context? How do notions of translation, adaptation and localisation help us understand the cultural dynamics of these shifts, and in what ways does a transnational perspective offer us a deeper understanding of film remaking? Bringing together a range of international scholars, Transnational Film Remakes is the first edited collection to specifically focus on the phenomenon of cross-cultural remakes. Using a variety of case studies, from Hong Kong remakes of Japanese cinema to Bollywood remakes of Australian television, this book provides an analysis of cinematic remaking that moves beyond Hollywood to address the truly global nature of this phenomenon. Looking at iconic contemporary titles such as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Oldboy, as well as classics like La Bte Humaine and La Chienne, this book interrogates the fluid and dynamic ways in which texts are adapted and reworked across national borders to provide a distinctive new model for understanding these global cultural borrowings.

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"Transnational Film Remakes not only succeeds in providing great explanations of complex issues, but, and probably more importantly, raises new thought-provoking questions. Therefore, it will be an interesting read for scholars working in transnational (remake) studies, or more broadly in adaptation studies, but equally for everyone interested in film studies and the recycling of cultural artefacts." -- Eduard Cuelenaere, Communications

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An in-depth exploration of film remakes within global media culture

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An in-depth exploration of film remakes within global media culture Bringing together a range of international scholars, Transnational Film Remakes is the first edited collection to specifically focus on the phenomenon of cross-cultural remakes. Using a variety of case studies, from Hong Kong remakes of Japanese cinema to Bollywood remakes of Australian television, this book provides an analysis of cinematic remaking that moves beyond Hollywood to address the truly global nature of this phenomenon. Looking at iconic contemporary titles such as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Oldboy , as well as classics like La B

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Provides extended case studies of transnational film remakes from Asia, North America, Europe and Australia Explores issues of intertextuality, genre, performance, and authorship within transnational film studies Challenges the view that transnational remakes are unidirectional products of dominant film industries Develops an expanded understanding of film remakes within global media culture

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An in-depth exploration of film remakes within global media culture Offering a variety of case studies in which films have been remade across national borders, Transnational Film Remakes provides an analysis of cinematic remaking that moves beyond Hollywood to address the truly global nature of this phenomenon. From Hong Kong remakes of Japanese cinema to Bollywood remakes of Australian television, this book interrogates the fluid and dynamic ways in which texts are adapted and reworked across national borders to provide a distinctive new model for understanding these global cultural borrowings. Key features Provides extended case studies of transnational film remakes from Asia, North America, Europe and Australia Challenges the view that transnational remakes are unidirectional products of dominant film industries

Description for Teachers/Educators

Suitable for courses in transnational cinema and film remakes. Some university courses for which Transnational Film Remakes would be suitable as required or supplementary reading include: Cinema in the World, Birkbeck University London Film Adaptation: Culture and Context, University of Southampton Film and Television Adaptation, University of Kent From National to Transnational Cinema, University of Leeds Introduction to Film Adaptation, Sheffield Hallam University Introduction to World Cinema, University of Manchester National and Transnational Cinema, University of Kent Postmodern Hollywood, University of Warwick Transnational Cinema, Bangor University Transnational Cinema, Dublin Institute of Technology Transnational Cinema, York St John University Transnational Cinemas, University of Roehampton World Cinema, University of Southampton

Details ISBN1474407242 Publisher Edinburgh University Press ISBN-10 1474407242 ISBN-13 9781474407243 Format Paperback Series Traditions In World Cinema Media Book Imprint Edinburgh University Press Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Iain Robert Smith Affiliation Monash University Illustrations 20 black and white illustrations DEWEY 791.4301 Year 2017 Publication Date 2017-03-31 Language English UK Release Date 2017-03-31 NZ Release Date 2017-03-31 Author Constantine Verevis Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2017-06-26 Pages 248 Alternative 9781474407236 We've got this

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