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Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguise

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dc.creator Zanger, Anat
dc.date 2006
dc.date.accessioned 2020-02-25T15:37:05Z
dc.date.available 2020-02-25T15:37:05Z
dc.identifier http://www.oapen.org/download/?type=document&docid=340183
dc.identifier https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=search&query=rid:12872
dc.identifier ISBN: 9789053567845
dc.identifier DOI: 10.5117/9789053567845
dc.identifier.uri https://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/32382
dc.description The first book-length account of the symbolic chains that link remakes and explain their disguises, Film Remakes as Rituals and Disguise is also the first book to explore how and why these stories are told. Anat Zanger focuses on contemporary retellings of three particular tales-Joan of Arc, Carmen, and Psycho-to reveal what she calls the remake's "rituals of disguise." Joan of Arc, Zanger demonstrates, later appears as the tough, androgynous Ripley in the blockbuster Alien III film and the God-ridden Bess in Lars Von Trier's Breaking the Waves. Ultimately, these remake chains offer evidence of the archetypes of our own age, cultural "fingerprints" that are reflective of society's own preferences and politics. Underneath the redundancy of the remake, Zanger shows, lies our collective social memory. Indeed, at its core the lowly remake represents a primal attempt to gain immortality, to triumph over death-playing at movie theatres seven days a week, 365 days a year. Addressing the wider theoretical implications of her argument with sections on contemporary film issues such as trauma, jouissance, and censorship, Zanger offers an insightful addition to current debates in film theory and cinema history.
dc.language Undetermined
dc.publisher Amsterdam University Press
dc.rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
dc.subject culture and history
dc.subject motion pictures
dc.subject vrouwenstudies
dc.subject film
dc.subject cultuur and geschiedenis
dc.subject women and education, research, related topics
dc.title Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguise
dc.type book


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