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

by Kathleen Loock

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520375769
• ISBN13: 9780520375765
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"