Play it Again Sam Retakes on Remakes

Horton Andrew and McDougal Stuart Y Editing

ISBN 10: 0520205936 / ISBN 13: 9780520205932

Edité par University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998

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• Titre: Play it Again Sam Retakes on Remakes
• Éditeur: University of California Press, Berkeley
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0520205936
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780520205932
• Reliure: Soft Cover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Type de livre: A00023377

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Synopsis

"Play It Again, Sam" is a timely investigation of a topic that until now has received almost no critical attention in film and cultural studies: the cinematic remake. As cinema enters its second century, more remakes are appearing than ever before, and these writers consider the full range: Hollywood films that have been recycled by Hollywood, such as "The Jazz Singer", "Cape Fear", and "Robin Hood"; foreign films including "Breathless"; and "Three Men and a Baby", which Hollywood has reworked for American audiences; and foreign films based on American works, among them Yugoslav director Emir Kusturica's "Time of the Gypsies", which is a "makeover" of Coppola's "Godfather" films.As these essays demonstrate, films are remade by other films (Alfred Hitchcock went so far as to remake his own "The Man Who Knew Too Much") and by other media as well. The editors and contributors draw upon narrative, film, and cultural theories, and consider gender, genre, and psychological issues, presenting the "remake" as a special artistic form of repetition with a difference and as a commercial product aimed at profits in the marketplace.The remake flourishes at the crossroads of the old and the new, the known and the unknown. "Play It Again, Sam" takes the reader on an eye-opening tour of this hitherto unexplored territory.

À propos de l?auteur

Andrew Horton is Professor of Film and Literature at the University of Oklahoma and Director of the Aegean Institute. He is author of the popular Writing the Character-Centered Screenplay (California, 1994) and other books. Stuart Y. McDougal is Director of the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. His previous books include Made into Movies: From Literature to Film (1985).