Introduction: Transnational Film Remakes, Iain Robert Smith and Constantine Verevis
PART I: GENRES AND TRADITIONS
1. Disrupting the Remake: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Lucy Mazdon
2. Fritz Lang Remakes Jean Renoir for Hollywood: Film Noir in Three National Voices, R. Barton Palmer
3. The Cultural Politics of Re-making Spanish Horror films in the Twenty-First Century: Quarantine and Come Out and Play, Andy Willis
4. 'For the Dead Travel Fast': The Transnational Afterlives of Dracula, Iain Robert Smith
PART II: GENDER AND PERFORMANCE
5. The Chinese Cinematic Remake as Transnational Appeal: Zhang Yimou's A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, Kenneth Chan
6. Transformation and Glamour in the Cross-Cultural Makeover: Return to Eden, Khoon Bhari Maang and the Avenging Woman in Popular Hindi Cinema, Michael Lawrence
7. Translating Cool: Cinematic Exchange between Hong Kong, Hollywood, and Bollywood, Rashna Wadia Richards
8. Trading Places: Das doppelte Lottchen and The Parent Trap, Constantine Verevis
PART III: AUTEURS AND CRITICS
9. A Tale of Two Balloons: Intercultural Cinema and Transnational Nostalgia in Le voyage du ballon rouge, David Scott Diffrient and Carl R. Burgchardt
10. 'Crazed Heat': Nakahira Ko and the Transnational Self-Remake, David Desser
11. Remaking Funny Games: Michael Haneke's Cross-Cultural Experiment, Kathleen Loock
12. Reinterpreting Revenge: Authorship, Excess, and the Critical Reception of Spike Lee's Oldboy, Daniel Martin
13. The Transnational Film Remake in the American Press, Daniel Herbert
Contributors
Notes
'An excellent, historically and geographically wide-ranging collection of original work on the phenomenon of transnational film remakes and related socio-cultural issues. The editors and contributors succeed in drilling down deep in their insightful investigations of the complexities involved in these global cinematic acts of translation and relocation.' Catherine Grant, University of Sussex What happens when a film is remade in another national context? How do notions of translation, adaptation and localisation help us understand the cultural dynamics of these shifts, and in what ways does a transnational perspective offer us a deeper understanding of film remaking? Bringing together a range of international scholars, Transnational Film Remakes is the first edited collection to specifically focus on the phenomenon of cross-cultural remakes. Using a variety of case studies, from Hong Kong remakes of Japanese cinema to Bollywood remakes of Australian television, this volume provides an analysis of cinematic remaking that moves beyond Hollywood to address the truly global nature of this phenomenon. Looking at iconic contemporary titles such as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Oldboy, as well as classics like La Bête Humaine and La Chienne, this book interrogates the fluid and dynamic ways in which texts are adapted and reworked across national borders to provide a distinctive new model for understanding these global cultural borrowings. Iain Robert Smith is Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College London. Constantine Verevis is Associate Professor in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. Cover image: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, David Fisher, 2011 (c) Columbia/MGM/Scott Rudin Prod./The Kobal Collection Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN (cover): 978-1-4744-0724-3 ISBN (PPC): 978-1-4744-0723-6 Barcode
Iain Robert Smith is Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College London. He is author of The Hollywood Meme: Transnational Adaptations in World Cinema (Edinburgh UP, 2016) and co-editor of Media Across Borders (2016). He is co-chair of the SCMS Transnational Cinemas Scholarly Interest Group, and co-investigator on the AHRC-funded research network Media Across Borders.
Constantine Verevis is Associate Professor in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. His publications include: Film Remakes (Edinburgh UP, 2006), Transnational Film Remakes (Edinburgh UP, 2017), Film Reboots (Edinburgh UP, 2020), and Flaming Creatures (2020). With Claire Perkins, he is founding co-editor of Screen Serialities (Edinburgh UP).