Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture

Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture
ISBN-10
0520375777
ISBN-13
9780520375772
Category
Film remakes
Pages
317
Language
English
Published
2024
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Kathleen Loock

Description

"From the inception of cinema to today's franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing textual production. Hollywood Remaking critically examines the persistent economic and cultural relevance of film remakes, series, sequels, crossovers, spin-offs, and prequels that emerge from the large-scale system of remaking actively shape how the film industry, cinema, and audiences imagine themselves as these movies constantly negotiate past and present, stability and change through a serial dynamic of repetition and variation. The book develops a theory of Hollywood remaking as an inherently dynamic practice situated between the film industry's economic logic and the cultural imaginary and analyzes how remaking has developed as a business practice in the United States, how it has been imagined, discursively constructed, and defined by networked stakeholders from production and reception contexts, how it has shaped cinematic aesthetics and cultural debates, and how it has fostered film-historical knowledge, promoted feelings of generational belonging among audiences, and become deeply enmeshed with constructions of the self"--

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