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

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Kathleen Loock

Hollywood Remaking

How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture

Kathleen Loock

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University of California Press
26 March 2024

Dance & Performing arts

From the inception of cinema to today's franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing film production. Hollywood Remaking challenges the categorical dismissal in film criticism of remakes, sequels, and franchises by probing what these formats really do when they revisit familiar stories. Kathleen Loock argues that movies from Hollywood's large-scale system of remaking use serial repetition and variation to constantly negotiate past and present, explore stability and change, and actively shape how the film industry, cinema, and audiences imagine themselves. Far from a simple profit-making exercise, remaking is an inherently dynamic practice situated between the film industry's economic logic and the cultural imagination. Although remaking developed as a business practice in the United States, this book shows that it also shapes cinematic aesthetics and cultural debates, fosters film-historical knowledge, and promotes feelings of generational belonging among audiences.

By: Kathleen Loock
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9780520375765
ISBN 10: 0520375769
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 26 March 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction PART I A THEORY OF HOLLYWOOD REMAKING 1. Making Sense of Repetition 2. Hollywood’s Usable Past PART II FILM REMAKES 3. Cinematic Pasts and Presents 4. The Remake as Archive PART III SERIES, SEQUELS, AND FRANCHISES 5. Cinematic Seriality from “B” to “A” 6. From Sequelitis to the Forever Franchise Conclusion: Rebooting the Past Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Kathleen Loock is Professor of American Studies and Media Studies at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, where she also directs the Emmy Noether Research Group “Hollywood Memories: Cinematic Remaking and the Construction of Global Movie Generations” (https://hollywood-memories.com/).