Film Remakes As Ritual And Disguise: From Carmen to Ripley - Couverture rigide

Zanger, Anat A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9053567852 ISBN 13 : 9789053567852

Editeur : Amsterdam University Press, 2006

Synopsis

The first book-length account of the symbolic chains that link remakes and explain their disguises, Film Remakes as Rituals and Disguise is also the first book to explore how and why these stories are told. Anat Zanger focuses on contemporary retellings of three particular tales-Joan of Arc, Carmen, and Psycho-to reveal what she calls the remake's -rituals of disguise.� Joan of Arc, Zanger demonstrates, later appears as the tough, androgynous Ripley in the blockbuster Alien III film and the God-ridden Bess in Lars Von Trier's Breaking the Waves. Ultimately, these remake chains offer evidence of the archetypes of our own age, cultural -fingerprints� that are reflective of society's own preferences and politics. Underneath the redundancy of the remake, Zanger shows, lies our collective social memory. Indeed, at its core the lowly remake represents a primal attempt to gain immortality, to triumph over death-playing at movie theatres seven days a week, 365 days a year. Addressing the wider theoretical implications of her argument with sections on contemporary film issues such as trauma, jouissance, and censorship, Zanger offers an insightful addition to current debates in film theory and cinema history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anat Zanger is associate professor (=Senior Lecturer ) at the Film & Television Department, Tel Aviv University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Amsterdam University Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9053567852
• ISBN 13: 9789053567852
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
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• Personne responsable: non disponible