Film Reboots

Daniel Herbert, Constantine Verevis (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-5136-9 (ISBN)

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Bringing together the latest developments in the study of serial formatting practices – remakes, sequels, series – Film Reboots is the first edited collection to specifically focus on the new millennial phenomenon of rebooting. Through a set of vibrant case studies, this collection investigates rebooting as a practice that seeks to remake an entire film series or franchise, with ambitions that are at once respectful and revisionary. Examining such notable examples as Batman, Ghostbusters, and Star Trek, among others, this collection contends with some of the most important features of contemporary film and media culture today.

Daniel Herbert is an associate professor in the Department of Screen Arts & Cultures at the University of Michigan. 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).

Introduction: Film Reboots 5

Daniel Herbert and Constantine Verevis

PART I: INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE

1. Rethinking the ‘Supersystem’: Film Reboots and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 31

Daniel Herbert

2. Live Long and Prosper: Rebooting Star Trek and Reimagining Fandom 53

Erin Hanna

3. The Many Reboots of the Batman 76

Eileen R. Meehan

PART II: STRUCTURE AND NARRATIVE

4. The Edge of Reality: Replicating Blade Runner 103

Constantine Verevis

5. Gender, Genre and the Reboot: From Ocean’s 11/Eleven to Ocean’s 8/Eight 124

Jennifer Forrest

6. Understanding Twin Peaks: The Return as a ‘Film Reboot’ via Anti-Franchise Discourses Within Media Franchising 145

Matt Hills

7. All This Has Happened Before: Mythic Repetition in the Film-to-Television Reboot 167

Nicholas Benson & Jonathan Gray

PART III: POLITICS AND IDENTITY

8. Resistance and Empire: Star Wars and the Social Justice Reboot 189

Derek Johnson

9. Rebooting the Politics of the Sports Melodrama: Creed vs. Rocky 214

Chuck Tryon

10. Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot

236

Claire Perkins

PART IV: FANS AND AUDIENCES

11. Reboot, Requel, Legacyquel: Jurassic World and the Nostalgia Franchise 259

Kathleen Loock

12. Worldbuilding, Retconning, and Legacy Rebooting: Alien and Contemporary Media Franchise Strategies 283

James Fleury

13. Anticipating the Reboot: Teasing Top Gun 2 309

Paul Grainge

14. A Dark Knight on Elm Street: Discursive Regimes of (Sub) Cultural Value, Paratextual Bonding, and the Perils of Remaking and Rebooting Canonical Horror Cinema 331

William Proctor

Contributors 352

Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2020
Reihe/Serie	Screen Serialities
Zusatzinfo	20 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	532 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-5136-5 / 1474451365
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-5136-9 / 9781474451369
Zustand	Neuware