Dead Ringers

Jennifer Forrest is Associate Professor of French at Southwest Texas State University. Leonard R. Koos is Associate Professor of French at Mary Washington College.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors 1. Reviewing Remakes: An IntroductionJennifer Forrest and Leonard R. Koos 2. Twice Told Tales: Disavowal and the Rhetoric of the Film RemakeThomas Michael Leitch 3. Economy and Aesthetics in American Remakes of French FilmsMichael Harney 4. The "Personal" Touch: The Original, the Remake, and the Dupe in Early ChinaJennifer Forrest 5. Sound Strategies: Lang's Rearticulation of RenoirTricia Welsch 6. The Raven and the Nanny: The Remake as Crosscultural EncounterAlan Williams 7. Sadie Thompson Redux: Postwar Reintegration of the Wartime Wayward WomanJennifer Forrest 8. Hiring Practices: Simenon/Duvivier/LeconteLeonard R. Koos 9. Twice Two: The Fly and Invasion of the Body SnatchersMarty Roth 10. Three Takes on Motherhood, Masculinity, and Marriage: Serreau's Trois hommes et un couffin, Nimoy's Remakes, and Ardolino's SequelCarolyn Ann Durham 11. Pretty Woman With a Gun: La Femme Nikita, Point of No Return, and the Textual Politics of "the Remake"Laura Grindstaff Appendix A Remaking Le Voile bleu: An Interview with Norman Corwin, Screenwriter for The Blue VeilJennifer Forrest Appendix BLetter from Norman Corwin to Jerry Wald Index

"Readers will find meaningful and thoughtful discussions of both historical and aesthetic perspectives." — CHOICE"Dead Ringers demonstrates that the remake is not just a lowly Hollywood form geared cynically to a debased market, but rather a formative genre in the development of international film culture. Contributors trace remakes from early cinema to contemporary Hollywood, and illuminate key issues of authorship, national cinematic styles, and historical contexts of production along the way, with particular emphasis on French/American cross-cultural transactions. In its theoretical range and practical research, the book is very useful." — James Morrison, author of Passport to Hollywood: Hollywood Films, European Directors