{"product_id":"hollywood-remaking-how-film-remakes-sequels-and-franchises-shape-industry-and-culture-hardcover","title":"Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKathleen Loock\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the inception of cinema to today's franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing film production. \u003ci\u003eHollywood Remaking\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the categorical dismissal in film criticism of remakes, sequels, and franchises by probing what these formats really \u003ci\u003edo\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA must-read major achievement. Kathleen Loock deftly and refreshingly gets past the mountains of discursive junk piled on top of the concept of remaking and offers instead a superbly smart and highly compelling thesis for how to make sense of it as cultural practice.--Jonathan Gray, author of \u003ci\u003eDislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"An ambitious and admirable undertaking, ingenious in concept and execution. Examining not only the industrial history of remaking but also its impact on conceptions of the self, generational communities, and cultural memory, \u003ci\u003eHollywood Remaking \u003c\/i\u003emarks a major step forward in our understanding of remaking practices.\"--Barbara Klinger, author of \u003ci\u003eImmortal Films: \u003c\/i\u003eCasablanca\u003ci\u003e and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Skillfully interweaving original theorization and astute analyses of illuminating case studies, \u003ci\u003eHollywood Remaking\u003c\/i\u003e offers an expansive and highly sophisticated consideration of cinematic intertextuality and seriality. This book significantly innovates the study of remakes, sequels, and franchises, particularly with regard to issues of cultural memory and generational belonging, and casts a new light on Hollywood's historical practices along the way.\"--Daniel Herbert, author of \u003ci\u003eMaverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Kathleen Loock's illuminating new book interrogates serial media formats--remakes, sequels, and franchises--to demonstrate the 'commercial value, cultural legitimacy, and audience appeal' of Hollywood's long history of remaking. Thoroughly researched and expertly argued, Loock's work provides a detailed account of Hollywood remaking in its industrial, cultural, and historical contexts. This wonderful book will make an important and lasting contribution to the field.\"--Constantine Verevis, author of \u003ci\u003eFlaming Creatures\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Terms like remake, sequel, or spin-off are omnipresent, but they are overused and underdefined. Kathleen Loock is the first to take the hard road and really do something about it. Taking filmic remaking seriously as a meaningful cultural phenomenon, \u003ci\u003eHollywood Remaking\u003c\/i\u003e builds a comprehensive and sustained theory of remaking based on a vast data set of filmic remakes over the last century that gives the lie to many cherished assumptions and beliefs. For anyone interested in film and film history, and talking sensibly about them, this timely book is a must-read.\"--Rüdiger Heinze, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eRemakes and Remaking: Concepts - Media - Practices\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Loock provides a timely and welcome exit ramp off of the original vs. copy roundabout, encouraging readers to recognize and embrace the rich discursive interplay of Hollywood remakes with cinema past, present, and future. This engaging work persuasively argues that emblematic of the century-old practice of serial production, a remake's story and universe (updates, series, sequels, prequels, reboots, etc.) always look backwards while at the same time continuing to expand and evolve and, in the process, invites each new generation into its constellation. \u003ci\u003eHollywood Remaking\u003c\/i\u003e will be the indispensable companion to all scholars of film seriality.\"--Jennifer Forrest, author of \u003ci\u003eDecadent Aesthetics and the Acrobat in Fin-de-Siècle France\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKathleen Loock\u003c\/b\u003e 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\/). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51750192808224,"sku":"9780520375765","price":153.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1804571691ab417589bf006f6945a814_3a697774-f827-41fc-bcec-da819cd8f266.webp?v=1779945571","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/hollywood-remaking-how-film-remakes-sequels-and-franchises-shape-industry-and-culture-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}