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978-0-7391-8333-5 • Hardback • February 2014 • $147.00 • (£113.00)
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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 Definitions- Interrogating The Walking Dead: Adaptation, Transmediality, and the Zombie Matrix William Proctor
- A Remake by Any Other Name: Use of a Premise Under a New Title
Steven Gil - The Nostalgic Revolution Will Be Televised
Ryan Lizardi - Multiverses and Multiversions: Meditations on the Rebootings of Fringe
Heather Marcovitch - Look—(Stop Me If You’ve Read This One) But There Were These Two Spies: The Avengers Through the Swinging 60s
James W. Martens
Part 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 Lavigne - Clear 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 Stasia
Part 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-Coleman - That Haunting, Eerie Return: Narrative, Genre, and Iconography in Dark Shadows and Dark Shadows: The Revival
Lorna Piatti-Farnell - Smart, Sexy, and Technologically Savvy: (Re)Making Sherlock Holmes as a 21st-Century Superstar
Lynnette Porter - Remaking Public Service for Commercial Consumption: Jamie’s School Dinners Comes to America
Helen Thornham and Elke Weissmann - Who are we? Re-Envisioning the Doctor in the 21st Century
Paul Booth and Jef Burnham - “More Village”: Redeveloping The Prisoner
Peter Clandfield
ContributorsIndex
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.
— Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht
In a moment in which “remake” and “reboot” have been reduced to synergistic buzzwords, Remake Television: Reboot, Re-use, Recycle offers a more expansive and historically rich understanding of these terms. By considering how television remakes itself through adaptations, in media res reboots, and fan discourse, this collection offers a dynamic and detailed consideration of television's capacity to respond and adapt to culture.
— Suzanne Scott, Arizona State University
Remake Television is an engaging collection of essays inhabited by spies, chefs, time-travellers, detectives, angels, and beasts. The various chapters use popular television programs to examine complicated concepts like “fidelity,” “nostalgia,” and shared memory and often provide illuminating insights into the process of retelling and retooling familiar stories to fit changing times.
This book should be on the shelf of anyone interested in television, culture, and media studies.
— Daniel Downes, University of New Brunswick at Saint John