Cycles, Sequels, Spin-offs, Remakes, and Reboots : : Multiplicities in Film and Television /

Cycles, Sequels, Spin-offs, Remakes, and Reboots : : Multiplicities in Film and Television / / ed. by Amanda Ann Klein, R. Barton Palmer.

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...

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MitwirkendeR:
Ann Klein, Amanda,
Birmingham, Elizabeth,
Borden, Amy,
Crawford, Chelsey,
Doles, Steven,
Gaine, Vincent M.,
Kornfield, Sarah,
Loock, Kathleen,
Palmer, R. Barton,
Perkins, Claire,
Pomerance, Murray,
Rushing, Robert,
Scahill, Andrew,
Tsika, Noah,
Verevis, Constantine,
Williams, Kathleen,
Woods, Faye,
HerausgeberIn:
Klein, Amanda Ann,
Palmer, R. Barton,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2016
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. The Kissing Cycle, Mashers, and (White) Women in the American City
  • Chapter 3. Descended from Hercules: Masculine Anxiety in the Peplum
  • Chapter 4. The American Postwar Semidocumentary Cycle: Factual Dramatizations
  • Chapter 5. Cycle Consciousness and the White Audience in Black Film Writing: The 1949–1950 “Race Problem” Cycle and the African American Press
  • Chapter 6. Vicious Cycle: Jaws and Revenge-of-Nature Films of the 1970s
  • Chapter 7. Familiar Otherness: On the Contemporary Cross-Cultural Remake
  • Chapter 8. Anime’s Dangerous Innocents: Millennial Anxieties, Gender Crises, and the Shojo Body as a Weapon
  • Chapter 9. It’s Only a Film, Isn’t It? Policy Paranoia Thrillers of the War on Terror
  • Chapter 10. Doing Dumbledore: Actor-Character Bonding and Accretionary Performance
  • Chapter 11. A Lagosian Lady Gaga: Cross-Cultural Identifi cation in Nollywood’s Anti-Biopic Cycle
  • Chapter 12. Re-solving Crimes: A Cycle of TV Detective Partnerships
  • Chapter 13. Smart TV: Showtime’s “Bad Mommies” Cycle
  • Chapter 14. My Generation(s): Cycles, Branding, and Renewal in E4’s Skins
  • Chapter 15. Extended Attractions: Recut Trailers, Film Promotion, and Audience Desire
  • Chapter 16. Retro-Remaking: The 1980s Film Cycle in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
  • Chapter 17. I Can’t Lead This Vacation Anymore: Mumblecore’s American Man
  • Chapter 18. Serialized Killers: Prebooting Horror in Bates Motel and Hannibal
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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