Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox

Daniel Varndell is an independent scholar who teaches cultural and critical theory in English and Film Studies. This is his first book, and it marks the culmination of a long period of research on the subject of repetition and difference in Hollywood cinema. It will be complemented by a shorter, companion piece of work on David Lynch and Deleuze's figure of the 'dark precursor'.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Remake Paradox PART I: THE PROBLEM OF CHOICE 1. Shot For Shot Remakes 2. Transnational Remaking PART II: THE PROBLEM OF DISTANCE 3. The Vicious Circles of Postmodern Representations 4. Remake Series and the 'Case' of Film Noir PART III: THE PROBLEM OF THE EXCEPTION 5. The Other Side of Remakes 6. The Grandfather Paradox Conclusion: Encore Deleuze Bibliography Index

"Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox re-makes Deleuze in order to re-think cinematic re-makes. It is a strikingly original piece of work about the paradoxes of the apparent unoriginality of re-makes. It is at once an elegant repudiation of a number of bad readings of Deleuze (particularly by Badiou and Zizek) and a vitally fresh contribution to the field of cinema studies." - Ian Buchanan, Editor, Deleuze Studies