Transnational Film Remakes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19987244 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Iain Robert Smith (0000-0003-4190-7883), Constantine Verevis (0000-0002-8126-1696) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-04 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Transnational Film Remakes (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474407236.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2623162230 |
| ISBN | 9781474407236 |
| Open Library | OL28618579M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Film remakes are often dismissed within critical discourse as unoriginal, derivative and inferior to their source texts, yet this mode of critique takes on additional layers of meaning when films are remade transnationally as this process raises further issues surrounding national and/or ethnic identity and questions of cultural power. In order to investigate these kinds of complexities, this collection of original essays focuses its attention on the phenomenon of transnational film remakes and the wider social and cultural issues that they raise. What happens when a film is remade in another national context? To what extent can a film embedded within one cultural context be adapted for another? How might a transnational perspective offer us a deeper understanding of a specific socio-political context, and of the politics underpinning film remaking more generally? Given the increasing emphasis on reworking existing material within contemporary global cinema, there is a pressing need to address the phenomenon of the transnational film remake. By 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
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Film studies · Hollywood · Identity (music) · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Media studies · Movie theater · National cinema · National identity · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Cross-cultural studies · Film remakes · Motion pictures · Motion pictures and transnationalism
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |