Film Remakes

critical and historical fashion, offering both students and scholars an essential guide to approach film remakes. SCOPE: An Online Journal of Film Studies Constantine's Verevis's recent study is a welcome addition to the growing discourse on the sea of topics that 'remakes' embrace that will prove invaluable for students, scholars of media studies as well as for disciplined general readers of cinematic culture. In this groundbreaking study, Constantine Verevis explores an aspect of commercial film production interesting to the scholar and movie enthusiast alike: remaking. Film remakes can be profitably viewed from a number of perspectives, and this book provides an intriguing and revealing anatomy of the phenomenon. Verevis writes with verve and insight; an important feature of Film Remakes is the series of individual analyses that sparkle with revealing and intelligent comment as they clarify general points about remaking. Though theoretically informed, this book is wonderfully accessible to the general reader. A fine work of scholarship, Film Remakes promises to change the way we think about the phenomenon of the remake, and indeed about films, culture and intertextuality. This is the most authoritative, subtle and complex work on the cinematic remake that I have encountered. Verevis moves elegantly between history, theoretical argument and case studies "Constantine's Verevis's recent study is a welcome addition to the growing discourse on the sea of topics that 'remakes' embrace that will prove invaluable for students, scholars of media studies as well as for disciplined general readers of cinematic culture." - Screeing the Past, online journal, Issue 20 The book offers an elegant and insightful review of previous scholarly writing on film remakes and a series of case-studies -- ranging from close textual analyses to the exploration of fan, copyright and industrial discourses -- that pin down the remake in both a critical and historical fashion, offering both students and scholars an essential guide to approach film remakes.