Remake Television

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.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionCarlen LavignePart I: Debates and DefinitionsInterrogating The Walking Dead: Adaptation, Transmediality, and the Zombie Matrix William ProctorA Remake by Any Other Name: Use of a Premise Under a New TitleSteven GilThe Nostalgic Revolution Will Be Televised Ryan LizardiMultiverses and Multiversions: Meditations on the Rebootings of FringeHeather MarcovitchLook—(Stop Me If You’ve Read This One) But There Were These Two Spies: The Avengers Through the Swinging 60sJames W. MartensPart II: Remakes and the American Cultural MomentOnce Upon A Time in the 21st Century: Beauty and the Beast as Post-9/11 FairytaleCarlen LavigneClear Eyes, Full Hearts, Romney Lost: Politics, Football, and Friday Night LightsMatthew Paproth“These Aren’t Your Mother’s Angels”: Feminism, Jiggle Television and Charlie’s AngelsCristina Lucia StasiaPart III: Exploring the RemakeForbrydelsen, The Killing, Duty, and EthicsKaren Hellekson“I Was Hoping It Would Pass You By”: Dis/ability and Difference in Teen WolfKimberley McMahon-ColemanThat Haunting, Eerie Return: Narrative, Genre, and Iconography in Dark Shadows and Dark Shadows: The RevivalLorna Piatti-FarnellSmart, Sexy, and Technologically Savvy: (Re)Making Sherlock Holmes as a 21st-Century SuperstarLynnette PorterRemaking Public Service for Commercial Consumption: Jamie’s School Dinners Comes to AmericaHelen Thornham and Elke WeissmannWho are we? Re-Envisioning the Doctor in the 21st CenturyPaul Booth and Jef Burnham“More Village”: Redeveloping The PrisonerPeter ClandfieldContributorsIndex

This volume will appeal to media scholars, as well as to those looking for material to generate discussion in the undergraduate classroom. Remaking Television convincingly makes the case that the television remake has been under-theorized and under-appreciated.