Remake Television (eBook, ePUB)

Reboot, Re-use, Recycle
Redaktion: Lavigne, Carlen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Remakes are pervasive in today's popular culture, whether they take the form of reboots, "re-imaginings," or overly familiar sequels. Television remakes have proven popular with producers and networks interested in building on the nostalgic capital of past successes (or giving a second chance to underused properties). Some TV remakes have been critical and commercial hits, and others haven't made it past the pilot stage; all have provided valuable material ripe for academic analysis. In Remake Television: Reboot, Re-use, Recycle, edited by Carlen Lavigne,contributors from a variety of backgrounds offer multicultural, multidisciplinary perspectives on remake themes in popular television series, from classic cult favorites such as The Avengers (1961-69) and The X-Files (1993-2002) tocurrent hits like Doctor Who (2005-present) and The Walking Dead (2010-present). Chapters examine what constitutes a remake, and what series changes might tell us about changing historical and cultural contexts-or about the medium of television itself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 363
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739183342
• Artikelnr.: 40615513

Autorenporträt

Carlen Lavigne holds a Ph.D. in communications studies and teaches at Red Deer College in Alberta, Canada.She is the co-editor of American Remakes of British Television: Transformations and Mistranslations and the author of Cyberpunk Women, Feminism and Science Fiction: A Critical Study.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Carlen Lavigne
Part I: Debates and Definitions
Interrogating The Walking Dead: Adaptation, Transmediality, and the Zombie
Matrix William ProctorA Remake by Any Other Name: Use of a Premise Under a
New Title
Steven GilThe Nostalgic Revolution Will Be Televised
Ryan LizardiMultiverses and Multiversions: Meditations on the Rebootings of
Fringe
Heather MarcovitchLook-(Stop Me If You've Read This One) But There Were
These Two Spies: The Avengers Through the Swinging 60s
James W. MartensPart II: Remakes and the American Cultural Moment
Once Upon A Time in the 21st Century: Beauty and the Beast as Post-9/11
Fairytale
Carlen LavigneClear Eyes, Full Hearts, Romney Lost: Politics, Football, and
Friday Night Lights
Matthew Paproth"These Aren't Your Mother's Angels": Feminism, Jiggle
Television and Charlie's Angels
Cristina Lucia StasiaPart III: Exploring the Remake
Forbrydelsen, The Killing, Duty, and Ethics
Karen Hellekson"I Was Hoping It Would Pass You By": Dis/ability and
Difference in Teen Wolf
Kimberley McMahon-ColemanThat Haunting, Eerie Return: Narrative, Genre, and
Iconography in Dark Shadows and Dark Shadows: The Revival
Lorna Piatti-FarnellSmart, Sexy, and Technologically Savvy: (Re)Making
Sherlock Holmes as a 21st-Century Superstar
Lynnette PorterRemaking Public Service for Commercial Consumption: Jamie's
School Dinners Comes to America
Helen Thornham and Elke WeissmannWho are we? Re-Envisioning the Doctor in
the 21st Century
Paul Booth and Jef Burnham"More Village": Redeveloping The Prisoner
Peter ClandfieldContributors
Index