Remake Television
Reboot, Re-Use, Recycle
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 27. February 2014
1 pages
979-8-216-24353-3 (ISBN)
Description
Remakes are pervasive in today's popular culture, whether they take the form of reboots, "re-imaginings," or overly familiar sequels. Television remakes have proven popular with producers and networks interested in building on the nostalgic capital of past successes (or giving a second chance to underused properties). Some TV remakes have been critical and commercial hits, and others haven't made it past the pilot stage; all have provided valuable material ripe for academic analysis.
In Remake Television: Reboot, Re-use, Recycle, edited by Carlen Lavigne,contributors from a variety of backgrounds offer multicultural, multidisciplinary perspectives on remake themes in popular television series, from classic cult favorites such as The Avengers (1961-69) and The X-Files (1993-2002) tocurrent hits like Doctor Who (2005-present) and The Walking Dead (2010-present). Chapters examine what constitutes a remake, and what series changes might tell us about changing historical and cultural contexts-or about the medium of television itself.
In Remake Television: Reboot, Re-use, Recycle, edited by Carlen Lavigne,contributors from a variety of backgrounds offer multicultural, multidisciplinary perspectives on remake themes in popular television series, from classic cult favorites such as The Avengers (1961-69) and The X-Files (1993-2002) tocurrent hits like Doctor Who (2005-present) and The Walking Dead (2010-present). Chapters examine what constitutes a remake, and what series changes might tell us about changing historical and cultural contexts-or about the medium of television itself.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 tables
ISBN-13
979-8-216-24353-3 (9798216243533)
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Persons
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.
Content
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Carlen Lavigne
Part I: Debates and Definitions
Interrogating The Walking Dead: Adaptation, Transmediality, and the Zombie Matrix William ProctorA Remake by Any Other Name: Use of a Premise Under a New Title
Steven GilThe Nostalgic Revolution Will Be Televised
Ryan LizardiMultiverses and Multiversions: Meditations on the Rebootings of Fringe
Heather MarcovitchLook-(Stop Me If You've Read This One) But There Were These Two Spies: The Avengers Through the Swinging 60s
James W. MartensPart II: Remakes and the American Cultural Moment
Once Upon A Time in the 21st Century: Beauty and the Beast as Post-9/11 Fairytale
Carlen LavigneClear Eyes, Full Hearts, Romney Lost: Politics, Football, and Friday Night Lights
Matthew Paproth"These Aren't Your Mother's Angels": Feminism, Jiggle Television and Charlie's Angels
Cristina Lucia StasiaPart III: Exploring the Remake
Forbrydelsen, The Killing, Duty, and Ethics
Karen Hellekson"I Was Hoping It Would Pass You By": Dis/ability and Difference in Teen Wolf
Kimberley McMahon-ColemanThat Haunting, Eerie Return: Narrative, Genre, and Iconography in Dark Shadows and Dark Shadows: The Revival
Lorna Piatti-FarnellSmart, Sexy, and Technologically Savvy: (Re)Making Sherlock Holmes as a 21st-Century Superstar
Lynnette PorterRemaking Public Service for Commercial Consumption: Jamie's School Dinners Comes to America
Helen Thornham and Elke WeissmannWho are we? Re-Envisioning the Doctor in the 21st Century
Paul Booth and Jef Burnham"More Village": Redeveloping The Prisoner
Peter ClandfieldContributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Carlen Lavigne
Part I: Debates and Definitions
Interrogating The Walking Dead: Adaptation, Transmediality, and the Zombie Matrix William ProctorA Remake by Any Other Name: Use of a Premise Under a New Title
Steven GilThe Nostalgic Revolution Will Be Televised
Ryan LizardiMultiverses and Multiversions: Meditations on the Rebootings of Fringe
Heather MarcovitchLook-(Stop Me If You've Read This One) But There Were These Two Spies: The Avengers Through the Swinging 60s
James W. MartensPart II: Remakes and the American Cultural Moment
Once Upon A Time in the 21st Century: Beauty and the Beast as Post-9/11 Fairytale
Carlen LavigneClear Eyes, Full Hearts, Romney Lost: Politics, Football, and Friday Night Lights
Matthew Paproth"These Aren't Your Mother's Angels": Feminism, Jiggle Television and Charlie's Angels
Cristina Lucia StasiaPart III: Exploring the Remake
Forbrydelsen, The Killing, Duty, and Ethics
Karen Hellekson"I Was Hoping It Would Pass You By": Dis/ability and Difference in Teen Wolf
Kimberley McMahon-ColemanThat Haunting, Eerie Return: Narrative, Genre, and Iconography in Dark Shadows and Dark Shadows: The Revival
Lorna Piatti-FarnellSmart, Sexy, and Technologically Savvy: (Re)Making Sherlock Holmes as a 21st-Century Superstar
Lynnette PorterRemaking Public Service for Commercial Consumption: Jamie's School Dinners Comes to America
Helen Thornham and Elke WeissmannWho are we? Re-Envisioning the Doctor in the 21st Century
Paul Booth and Jef Burnham"More Village": Redeveloping The Prisoner
Peter ClandfieldContributors
Index
