Transnational Film Remakes

Iain Robert Smith is Lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London. He is author of The Hollywood Meme: Transnational Adaptations in World Cinema (Edinburgh UP, 2016) and co-editor of Media Across Borders (2016). He is co-chair of the SCMS Transnational Cinemas Scholarly Interest Group, and co-investigator on the AHRC-funded research network Media Across Borders. 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: Transnational Film Remakes, Iain Robert Smith and Constantine VerevisPART I: GENRES AND TRADITIONS1. Disrupting the Remake: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Lucy Mazdon2. Fritz Lang Remakes Jean Renoir for Hollywood: Film Noir in Three National Voices, R. Barton Palmer3. The Cultural Politics of Re-making Spanish Horror films in the Twenty-First Century: Quarantine and Come Out and Play, Andy Willis 4. ‘For the Dead Travel Fast’: The Transnational Afterlives of Dracula, Iain Robert SmithPART II: GENDER AND PERFORMANCE5. The Chinese Cinematic Remake as Transnational Appeal: Zhang Yimou’s A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, Kenneth Chan6. Transformation and Glamour in the Cross-Cultural Makeover: Return to Eden, Khoon Bhari Maang and the Avenging Woman in Popular Hindi Cinema, Michael Lawrence7. Translating Cool: Cinematic Exchange between Hong Kong, Hollywood, and Bollywood, Rashna Wadia Richards8. Trading Places: Das doppelte Lottchen and The Parent Trap, Constantine VerevisPART III: AUTEURS AND CRITICS9. A Tale of Two Balloons: Intercultural Cinema and Transnational Nostalgia in Le voyage du ballon rouge, David Scott Diffrient and Carl R. Burgchardt10. ‘Crazed Heat’: Nakahira Ko and the Transnational Self-Remake, David Desser11. Remaking Funny Games: Michael Haneke’s Cross-Cultural Experiment, Kathleen Loock 12. Reinterpreting Revenge: Authorship, Excess, and the Critical Reception of Spike Lee’s Oldboy, Daniel Martin 13. The Transnational Film Remake in the American Press, Daniel HerbertContributors Notes

Transnational Film Remakes not only succeeds in providing great explanations of complex issues, but, and probably more importantly, raises new thought-provoking questions. Therefore, it will be an interesting read for scholars working in transnational (remake) studies, or more broadly in adaptation studies, but equally for everyone interested in film studies and the recycling of cultural artefacts.'