Reanimated
The Contemporary American Horror Remake
Seiten
2022
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4064-6 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4064-6 (ISBN)
Explores American horror remakes produced since 2000 within key cultural, industry and reception contexts
This book provides a fresh look at American horror remakes produced in the years since 2000, and represents a significant academic intervention into an understanding of the remaking trend. Offering an alternative take to the critical and scholarly dismissal of genre remakes as derivative copies, Reanimated instead approaches the films as intertextual adaptations which have both drawn from and helped to shape the genre in the 21st Century. Including detailed analysis of films from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to IT, and identifying distinct cycles, production strategies and patterns of reception, this study illustrates the importance of the remake to contemporary horror cinema. Rather than representing the death of horror, remaking instead demonstrates the genre’s remarkable capacity to reanimate.
This book provides a fresh look at American horror remakes produced in the years since 2000, and represents a significant academic intervention into an understanding of the remaking trend. Offering an alternative take to the critical and scholarly dismissal of genre remakes as derivative copies, Reanimated instead approaches the films as intertextual adaptations which have both drawn from and helped to shape the genre in the 21st Century. Including detailed analysis of films from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to IT, and identifying distinct cycles, production strategies and patterns of reception, this study illustrates the importance of the remake to contemporary horror cinema. Rather than representing the death of horror, remaking instead demonstrates the genre’s remarkable capacity to reanimate.
Dr Laura Mee is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Hertfordshire. She is the author of The Shining (Devil’s Advocates) (2017).
Chapter 1. Horror Reanimated: The Rise of the RemakeChapter 2.Defining and Defending the Horror Remake
Chapter 3. Re-writing Horror Mythology in the Platinum Dunes RebootChapter 4. Distinction and Difference in the Slasher RemakeChapter 5. Cultural anxieties and ambiguities in post-9/11 remakesChapter 6. Gender and Genre in the Rape-revenge Remake
Conclusion: ‘The Devil Never Dies’: Recent Horror Remakes
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.08.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Screen Serialities |
| Zusatzinfo | 20 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-4064-9 / 1474440649 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-4064-6 / 9781474440646 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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