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A

Abdul, Paula, 136

A bout de souffle (1959, Breathless ), 8 , 29 , 151 fig.;

and 1983 Breathless,152 –53, 160 n3;

imagery of, 159 ;

linguistic transpositions of, 155 , 160 n4;

plot line of, 151 ;

problematic remake of, 150 ;

transfer of identity in, 154 –55

Abraham, Karl, 274 n10

Abril, Victoria, 201

Action Comics,288

Adams, Brooke, 25

Adam's Rib (1949), 170

Adaptations:

of films to comics, 281 , 282 fig., 283 , 292 n8;

of film to radio, 295 –97, 307 , 308 ;

of literary works to film, 53 , 170 n3, 295 , 296 , 333 –34n2;

mythical narratives and, 287 –90;

remakes vs.,31 , 284 ;

status of originals in, 284 –86, 292 n11;

translation vs.,284 , 290 .

See also M*A*S*H; Stagecoach; Translation

Adjani, Isabelle, 244 fig.

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), 7 , 70 –74, 72 fig., 78 n2

Adzovic, Ljubica, 176 fig., 184

African-American culture:

and The Benny Goodman Story,107 –8;

and The Jazz Singer,104 , 110 –11, 113 n9;

and The Jolson Story,106 –7;

sexuality stereotype of, 107 –8, 111 , 112 nn3,8;

and St. Louis Blues,109 ;

violence/dependency stereotype of, 105

Against All Odds (1984), 29

Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972), 245 , 249 n5

Alda, Alan, 317 , 318 , 319 , 321 , 324 , 325

Alessi, David, 231 –32n2

Allen, Karen, 117 –18

Allen, Steve, 107

Allen, Woody, 3

All in the Family (TV series), 315 , 316 , 325

Allographic arts:

vs. autographic arts, 297 –98, 330

All That Jazz (1979), 136

All the Wrong Clues (1984), 192

Allusions:

and audience recognition, 36 , 142 n1;

to cartoons, 139 –41;

conventions vs.,136 ;

essential function of, 131 ;

to fairy tales, 139 ;

film clips as, 134 , 135 , 136 ;

filmmakers' use of, 35 –38, 50 –51n2, 135 –37, 138 , 165 , 202 –4, 214 n4, 245 –46, 253 , 255 , 273 n4;

to Hitchcockian formal structures, 35 –39, 50 –51 n2;

to Hong Kong transition, 197 –98;

as remakes in miniature, 126 –27n2;

sequels' use of, 137 , 142 –43n3;

unintentional use of, 141 –42;

various forms of, 132 –34;

to world cinema, 178 –81

Almodovar, Pedro, 8 , 200 , 213 , 214 , 332 . See also High Heels

Altman, Rick, 92 n4, 98

Altman, Robert, 284 , 292 n10, 310 –11, 312

Always (1990), 117 fig.;

as acknowledged remake, 126 n1;

establishing sequence of, 119 –20;

fire-fighting sequences of, 127 n3;

as ideologically vacant, 118 –19, 127 nn


342

4,7,8, 128 nn9,10;

leading couple of, 117 –18;

oedipal inflections of, 8 , 18 , 122 , 124 ;

tampered climax of, 120

American Indians, 300 –301, 308 n1

An Andalusian Dog (1929, Un Chien Andalou ), 218 , 222

Andersson, Bibi, 206

And God Created Woman (1957, 1987), 29

"And the Angels Sing" (song), 109

Angelopoulos, Theo, 10 , 188

Anna Lucasta (1949, 1958), 30

Anti-Christ:

Dracula as, 265 –66

Antonioni, Michelangelo, 30

Archie's Place (TV series), 325

Architextuality, 3 . See also Intertextuality

Arkham Asylum (1989), 290

Armstrong, Louis, 113 n9

Arnaz, Lucie, 103 fig.

Assimilation. See Jewish assimilation

Audience reception:

cultural identity issues of, 15 –18, 20 ;

of M*A*S*H TV series, 313 , 315 , 317 –18;

of radio adaptations, 296 ;

recognition element of, 36 ;

semiotic field of, 25 ;

of Streisand's A Star Is Born,88 , 91 , 93 n11.

See also Spectatorship

Aufderheide, Patricia, 8

Auteur theory, 286

Authorship:

of autographic vs. allographic arts, 297 –98, 330 .

See also Originals

Autographic arts:

vs. allographic arts, 297 –98, 330

Autumn Sonata (1978), 202

B

Back Street (1941, 1961), 332

Back to the Beach (1987), 134

Bacon, Francis, 132

Badham, John. See Dracula (1979, Badham)

Bailey, John, 142

Bailey, Pearl, 109

Bakhtin, Mikhail, 2 –3

Balsam, Martin, 40 , 41 fig.

La Bamba (1987), 95 , 109 –10

Banks, Leslie, 54 , 57 fig.

Barbieri, Daniele, 280 –81

Barbow, John, 241

Barks, Carl, 286

Barrymore, Lionel, 29 , 127 n4

Barthes, Roland, 125 , 132 , 281

Basic Instinct (1992), 7 , 37 –38

Bass, Saul, 40

Bassnett-McGuire, Susan, 285

Batman (1988), 279 , 289 , 290

Batman myth, 289

The Battleship Potemkin (1925), 138

Baudelaire, 133

Baudrillard, Jean, 204 , 212 , 213

Baudry, Jean-Louis, 258

Bazin, André, 50 –51n2, 132

Beatty, Warren, 285 –86

Beauty and the Beast (1946), 273 n4

Bell-Mettereau, Rebecca, 206

Bellour, Raymond, 96 , 175 , 178

Belmondo, Jean-Paul, 151 , 151 fig.

Belton, John, 6

Ben Hur (1926, 1959), 28

The Benny Goodman Story (1955), 95 , 107 –9, 111 , 112 –13n8

Bergman, Ingmar, 8 , 162 , 164 , 202 , 249 n1. See also The Virgin Spring

Bergman, Ingrid, 30 , 68 n11

Bernstein, Elmer, 40

Besson, Luc, 29

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), 104

A Better Tomorrow (1986), 193

Biermann, Wolf, 133

The Big Sleep (1946, 1978), 29 , 30

Biguenet, John, 3 , 7 , 36

The Birds (1963), 193

Biskind, Peter, 21

Bissell, Whit, 22

Black Cat (1992), 29

Black culture. See African-American culture

Blackface:

in The Jazz Singer remakes, 105 , 112 n7;

in The Jolson Story,106 –7

Black Like Me (1964), 112 n7

Blackmail (1929), 53

Black Narcissus (1946), 218 ;

and Damned If You Don't,226 –28;

exotic/ethnic presentation of, 225 –26, 234 nn26–28;

Friedrich's acknowledgement of, 224 ;

racist title of, 225 , 234 n29

Bloodworth, Linda, 320

Bloom, Harold, 119 , 334 n3

Blow-up (1966), 30

The Blue Lagoon (1949, 1980), 30

Blue Velvet (1986), 168

Body Double (1984), 29

Bogart, Humphrey, 154 , 157

Boichel, Bill, 291 n4

Bolland, Brian, 290


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Bond, Ward, 116 , 116 fig., 296 , 301

Bonnie and Clyde (1967), 317

Boorman, John, 10

Bordwell, David, 182

Borges, Jorge Luis, 2 , 329

Bose, Miguel, 201

Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932), 191

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992, Coppola), 9 , 240 , 252 fig., 262 , 273 nn 1,2;

anthropological reading of, 271 –72;

cinematic allusions in, 253 , 255 , 273 n4;

comic book adaptation of, 281 , 282 fig., 283 , 292 n 8;

dream quality of, 252 –53, 256 –57;

novel's adaptation of, 292 n11;

perception/representation confusion of, 258 ;

universal Dracula themes of, 264 , 265 –66, 267 , 268 –69, 270 ;

weakness/strength of, 251

Bram Stoker's Dracula (Hart and Saberhagen), 292 n11

Brando, Marlon, 175 fig., 188 –89n4

Branigan, Edward, 2 , 173

Brashinsky, Michael, 8

Braudy, Leo, 173 , 187

Brazilian cinema, 191 –92

The Breakfast Club (1985), 1

"Break It Up" (song), 229

"Breathless" (song), 158

Breathless (1959). See A bout de souffle

Breathless (1983), 29 , 152 fig., 329 ;

chiastic climax of, 158 ;

cinematic references in, 153 ;

as compromise, 150 –51;

departures from original in, 152 –53, 160 n3;

linguistic transpositions/inversions of, 155 –57;

musical subtext of, 157 –58;

plot line of, 151 –52

Breen, Joe, 19

The Bride (1985), 30

The Bride of Frankenstein (1975), 30

Broadcast News (1987), 117

Brooks, Richard, 29

Brown, Gilbert John and Lesley, 27

Brown, Joe E., 202

Brown, Judith, 229

Brown, Timothy, 313

Browning, Tod. See Dracula (1931, Browning)

Buckley, William F., 323

Buffy the Vampire Killer (1992), 240

Bukatman, Scott, 112 n6

Buñuel, Luis, 29 , 178 , 180 , 218

Burghoff, Gary, 313 , 321

Burton, Tim, 289 , 290

Buscombe, Edward, 295

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), 9 , 10 , 137

Butler, Judith, 206 , 224

Butterfly Murders (1979), 193

Byrne, John, 280

Byron, Kathleen, 226

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Cahiers du cinema school, 286

Cannes International Film Festival, 172 , 181 , 311

Cape Fear (1962), 6 , 40 –43, 41 fig., 49 , 51 n 5, 169

Cape Fear (1991), 5 , 50 fig., 169 ;

conventional cutting in, 51 n3;

doubling structure of, 43 , 47 ;

female sexual passivity of, 44 –45;

generational-change device of, 332 ;

as genre remake, 167 ;

as Hitch-cockian reformulation, 7 , 39 , 40 , 49 –50, 333 ;

I Confess and, 45 –46;

original version vs. , 5 , 6 , 42 , 43 ;

Strangers on a Train and, 47 –48;

unstable domesticity of, 49

Capra, Frank, 18 , 28 , 193

Captain Blood (1935), 71

Caribbean cinema, 16

Carpenter, John, 30

Carringer, Robert L., 110

Carroll, Noël, 126 –27n2, 245

Carson, Robert, 92 n6

Cartoon allusions, 139 –41. See also Comics

Cartwright, Veronica, 27

Casablanca (1942), 3

Castration fear, 271

Catholicism:

in Godfather trilogy, 186 –87.

See also Christianity

Cat's Eye (1985), 137

CBS network:

M*A*S*H series and, 315 –16, 319 –20

Censorship:

in Hong Kong, 192

Chabrol, Claude, 50 –51n2, 284 –85

The Champ (1931, 1979), 18

Chan, Jackie, 192 –93

Chandler, Raymond, 46

Chaplin, Charlie, 178

Chatman, Seymour, 96 , 174 , 328

La Chienne (1931), 29

Children of Paradise (1945), 133 –34

The Children's Hour (1961), 30


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Chimes at Midnight (1967), 133

Chinese opera:

and martial arts genre, 193 , 195

Chodorow, Nancy, 208

Chow Yun-fat, 192

Christian, Barbara, 230

Christianity:

and vampire myth, 265 , 273 –74n9.

See also Catholicism

Cinderella :

as "basic story," 96

Cinema. See Film

Cinema Paradiso (1989), 179 –80

CinemaScope, 81 , 92 –93n8

Citation effect. See Iterability structure

Citizen Kane (1941), 178

City Heat (1984), 192

Civil rights movement:

medical discourse during, 23 –25;

and use of blackface, 105

Clayton, Buck, 108

Clift, Montgomery, 45

A Clockwork Orange (1971), 136

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), 119 , 121 , 123 , 124

Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), 98

Codfish (1976), 191 –92

Cohl, Emile, 291 n3

Cohn, Alfred A., 100

Cohn, Roy, 21

Cohn, Ruby, 2

Cold Hearted (1989), 136

Cole, Nat King, 109

Colman, Ronald, 58

The Color of Money (1986), 40 , 332

Columbus, Chris, 138

Comics:

adaptation of films to, 281 , 282 fig., 283 , 292 n8;

filmmakers' interest in, 280 , 291 n3, 292 n6;

film's translation of, 9 , 283 –84, 285 –86, 290 , 292 n9;

first appearance of, 291 n4;

as myth, 287 –90, 292 –93n14;

as serious medium, 279 ;

strip vs. book, 291 n1, 292 n12;

as visual language, 280 –81

"Coming to America" (song), 104

Communist conspiracy. See Conspiracy theories

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949), 77

Connery, Sean, 77

Conspiracy theories:

and Body Snathcers films, 19 , 21 , 26 –27, 219

The Conversation (1974), 30

Cook, David, 205

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), 136

Cooper, Melville, 71

Coppola, Francis Ford, 4 , 9 , 30 , 172 , 174 –75, 178 , 187 , 240 , 273 n2. See also Bram Stoker's Dracula; Godfather films (I and II)

Corliss, Richard, 172 , 183

Costa-Gavras, 10

Costner, Kevin, 74 , 75 , 75 fig., 78

Count Dracula (1970, Franco), 259 , 262 , 268 , 273 nn1,2,8

Count Dracula (1977, TV adaptation), 273 nn 1 ,3

Couperie, Pierre, 291 n4

Cowie, Peter, 174

Crafton, Donald, 291 n3

Crane, Cheryl, 203 , 214 n4

Craven, Wes, 8 , 162 ;

violence trademark of, 164 –65, 169 , 170 n5.

See also The Last House on the Left

Crawford, Joan, 112 n7, 202 , 204

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), 272

Creed, Barbara, 205 , 209

Cries and Whispers (1972), 162

Crime films. See Gangster genre

Crosby, Bing, 30

Crossfire (1947), 104

Cukor, George, 29 , 81 , 92 n5, 93 n9. See also A Star Is Born (1937, 1954)

Culkin, Macaulay, 140 fig.

Cultural identity (concept):

as process, 16 –18, 20.

See also Historical/cultural context

Curtis, Dan, 273 nn 1,2,8

Curtiz, Michael, 30 , 73 , 95 , 112 n7. See also The Adventures of Robin Hood

D

Dacy, S. C., 195

Damned If You Don't (1987), 225 fig., 227 fig.;

Black Narcissus implant in, 224 –26, 227 –28, 234 n31;

equivocal referents of, 229 –30, 234 n33;

ethnic restraint of, 225 –26;

framing/costuming of, 228 ;

lesbian desire in, 218 , 224 , 227 –28, 229 , 233 –34n25, 234 nn31,33;

racism/sexism linkage of, 226

Dances with Wolves (1990), 74 , 78

Dangerous Encounters—First Kind (1980), 198

The Dark Knight Returns (1986), 289

Day, Doris, 59 , 65 fig., 67 n3, 112 n7

Day for Night (1973), 179


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Dead/undead theme:

of Dracula films, 263 –64, 273 n6

Dean, James, 121

Dee, Sandra, 201

The Deer Hunter (1978), 193 , 196

De Havilland, Olivia, 72 , 72 fig.

Delamater, Jerry, 7

Del Zio, John, 27 –28

DeMille, Cecil B., 28

De Niro, Robert, 2 , 6 , 50 fig.

Denshaw, Pat, 74 –75

De Palma, Brian, 29 , 37 , 135 , 138

Derrida, Jacques, 8 , 148 , 158 , 159

Desser, David, 99

Devine, Andy, 82 fig., 301

DeVito, Danny, 30

Dialogue:

in theater vs. cinema, 298 –300

Diamond, Neil, 95 , 103 fig., 104 , 105 , 111

Diary of a Chambermaid (1946, 1964), 29

Dick Tracy (1990), 285 –86, 288

Diderot, Denis, 3

Didion, Joan, 92 n6

Die Hard (1988), 134

Dietrich, Marlene, 44

Director. See Film director

The Dirty Dozen (1967), 193 , 194 , 195 –96

Disease:

desegregation tied to, 23 –25;

in Dracula films, 244 , 263 –64

Dmytryk, Edward, 29

Doane, Mary Ann, 214

Dockstader, Lou, 106 –7

Dominant cinema. See Hollywood films

Donner, Richard, 29

Dorfman, Ariel, 127 n7

Doubling structure:

of I Confess , 45 ;

of The Man Who Knew Too Much films, 55 –56, 62 , 66 , 68 n10;

moral ambiguity of, 43 ;

of Stage Fright , 44 ;

of Strangers on a Train , 46 –47

Douglas, Michael, 38

Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), 191

Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981, Sjecas Li Se Dolly Bell? ), 180 , 183 , 188

Dracula (1931, Browning), 240 , 245 , 256 fig., 273 n1;

belief/disbelief theme of, 259 , 260 ;

dream quality of, 255 ;

Stoker's story elements and, 261 , 262 –63;

universal Dracula themes of, 265 , 267 , 270

Dracula (1973, TV adaptation), 273 nn1,8

Dracula (1979, Badham), 29 , 240 , 249 n4, 253 fig., 256 , 273 n1;

mental institution of, 260 ;

as romanticization, 252 , 273 n3;

Stoker's story elements and, 261 , 262 , 263 ;

universal Dracula themes of, 265 , 266 , 267 , 270

Dracula (Stoker), 261 , 262 ;

adaptations of, 241 –42, 249 n2, 250 , 273 nn1,2;

belief/disbelief aspect of, 258 –59;

universal Dracula themes of, 264 , 267

Dracula films:

anthropological reading of, 251 , 271 –72;

anti-Christ theme of, 265 –66;

dead/undead theme of, 263 –64, 273 n6;

development of Dracula figure in, 261 –63;

dream quality of, 252 –53, 255 –58;

inversion of motherhood in, 269 –71, 274 n10;

perception/representation in, 258 –60;

sexual repression theme of, 266 –68

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968), 269

Dracula myth:

bestial ties of, 272 , 274 n14;

films' development of, 261 –63;

transcendent significations of, 250 –51, 270 ;

undifferentiated gender of, 271 , 274 nn12,13.

See also specific Dracula films ; Dracula films; Vampires

"Dramedy" genre, 316 –17

Dreaming:

in Dracula films, 252 –53, 255 –57;

spectatorship and, 257 –58

Dream On (HBO series), 136

Dreyfuss, Richard, 117 fig., 117 –18, 120

Druxman, Michael B., 126 n1

Dryden, John, 2

Duchamp, Marcel, 132

Dujmovic, Davor, 176 , 176 fig., 183

Dunne, Irene, 116 , 120

Dunne, John Gregory, 83 , 92 n6

Duras, Marguerite, 234 –35n34

Dyer, Richard, 84

E

Eastern Condors (1986), 193 –95, 196 –98

East Lynne (ca. 1903), 332

East of Eden (1955), 29 , 121 –22, 128 n13

Easy Rider (1969), 169

Ebert, Roger, 200 , 202

Eberwein, Robert, 7 , 126 –27n2, 233 n16, 284 , 328 , 329

Eco, Umberto, 287 –88, 293 nn15,16, 331

Edwards, Blake, 115 , 126 –27n2

Edwards, Robert, 27

Ehrenreich, Barbara, 78 n3

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 22


346

Eisenstein, Sergei, 133 , 138

Eisner, Lotte, 241 , 245

Eisner, Will, 286

Eliot, T. S., 3 , 39 , 329

Ellis, John, 238 –39

Elman, Ziggy, 109

Emmy Awards, 316

Empire of the Sun (1987), 115

Erice, Victor, 245

Eszterhas, Joe, 37 , 38

E.T. (1982), 123 , 124 , 168

"Evergreen" (song), 89

Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining (1960), 192

The Exorcist (1973), 273 n4

Export, Valie, 9 , 218 , 219 , 221 –22, 223 , 233 n21. See also Invisible Adversaries

F

Fairbanks, Douglas, 70

Fairy tale allusions, 139

Fairy tale musical, 92 n4, 98 . See also Musical remakes

Farewell, My Lovely (1975), 29

Farrar, David, 226

Farrell, Mike, 322

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, 202

Fatal Attraction (1987), 49

Faulkner, William, 23 , 152 , 153

Fell, John, 280

Fellini, Federico, 124 , 280 , 292 n6

Feminist critique:

of female fetishism, 211 ;

of postmodernism, 209 –10, 213 , 215 n11

Femme fatale cliché, 214

La Femme Nikita (1990), 29

Ferrara, Abel, 16

Fetishism:

bestial origins and, 271 –72;

foot, 208 –9;

motherhood and, 210 –12

Fiction. See Novel, the

Field, Sally, 324

Film:

centennial celebration of, 10 ;

comics' adaptation of, 281 , 282 fig., 283 , 292 n8;

cultural identity issues of, 16 –18, 20 ;

dialogue/gesture relationship in, 299 –300;

imagery's significance to, 132 –33;

iterability structure of, 147 –48, 149 , 154 ;

life span of, 310 ;

perception/representation in, 258 ;

presence/absence paradigm of, 238 –39, 242 –43, 245 –46;

prose fiction and, 286 ;

radio's promotion of, 295 –97, 307 –8;

self-referentiality of, 242 , 248 ;

semiotic field of, 25 ;

television's ties to, 179 –80, 311 ;

translation of comics to, 9 , 283 –84, 285 –86, 290 ;

use of allusion in, 35 –38, 50 –51n2.

See also Film originals; Film remakes; Foreign films; Hollywood films

Film clips:

as cinematic allusions, 134 , 135 , 136

Film director:

auteur theory of, 286 ;

as celebrity, 35

radio-program role of, 296 –97, 307 –8

Film originals:

cultural identity issues of, 15 –18, 20 ;

indeterminate status of, 230 , 231 ;

oedipal significance of, 8 , 125 –26, 129 nn15–17, 329 ;

remake categories based on, 126 n1;

re-representation of, 2 , 5 –6, 173 –74;

semiotic field of, 25

Film remakes:

adaptations vs. , 31 , 284 ;

canonized vs. popular sources of, 284 –85;

categories of, 126 n1;

as cross-cultural makeovers, 4 –5, 8 , 172 –73;

of director's own work, 52 , 67 n1;

of foreign films, 5 , 8 , 149 –51, 171 n8;

historical/cultural context of, 6 , 16 –18, 20 , 97 , 163 , 327 –28, 329 ;

intertextual processes of, 2 –5;

iterability structure of, 147 –48, 149 , 154 ;

motivations for making, 5 –6, 18 –19, 115 , 126 nn1,2, 328 ;

as mythmaking expression, 166 –67, 328 ;

oedipal inflections of, 7 –8, 18 , 125 –26, 129 nn16,17, 182 , 329 , 332 ;

re-representation process of, 2 , 5 –6, 173 –74;

semiotic field of, 25 ;

and sequels-series films, 91 –92n1;

taxonomy of, 28 –31, 284 ;

unexamined aspects of, 332 –33, 334 n3.

See also Film; Adaptations; Allusions; Makeovers; Musical remakes; Translation

First Blood (1982), 170

Fischer, Lucy, 8 , 27 , 332

Fisher, Terence. See The Horror of Dracula (1956, Fischer)

A Fistful of Dollars (1964), 29 , 170

Fitzcarraldo (1982), 134

Five Easy Pieces (1970), 134

Flash Gordon (1936 film serial), 285

Flash Gordon (1980), 285

Fleischer, Richard, 95 , 105

Fleming, Victor, 116 , 122

The Flintstones (1994), 29

The Fly (1958, 1986), 169

Flynn, Errol, 71 , 72 fig.


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Folklore:

"basic story" of, 96

Folk musical, 92 n4, 98 . See also Musical remakes

Fonda, Henry, 296

Fonoroff, Paul, 192

Foot fetishism, 208 –9. See also Fetishism

Ford, Harrison, 117

Ford, John, 4 , 35 , 178 ;

and codes of behavior, 305 ;

Kusturica's ties to, 180 –81;

radio-adapted films of, 295 ;

radio-program role of, 296 –97, 300 ;

as television director, 307 ;

use of offscreen space by, 305 –6.

See also Stagecoach (1939)

Foreign films:

erased subtitles of, 148 –49, 150 ;

Hollywood remakes of, 5 , 8 , 149 –51, 171 n8;

as homage to world cinema, 8 , 178 –81;

iterability structure of, 149 , 160 n1;

resistance/fascination strategies of, 191 –92, 196 –97

Fort Apache (radio adaptation), 295 , 296

Fosse, Bob, 80 , 136

Foucault, Michel, 25

The 400 Blows (1959), 179

Fox Television, 315

Franco, Jess. See Count Dracula (1970, Franco)

Frankenstein (1931), 30 , 245

Franz, Edward, 102

Freeman, Morgan, 75 fig., 76

Freud, Sigmund, 124 , 219 ;

on female development, 215 n9;

on fetishism, 208 , 210 –11;

on repetition compulsion, 251 ;

on subjective perceptions, 259

Friedrich, Caspar David, 245

Friedrich, Su, 8 –9, 218 , 228 , 232 nn6,7, 233 –34n25. See also Damned If You Don't

The Front Page (1931), 30

Frost, Robert, 142

Fuchs, Wolfgang, 291 n4

Furst, Anton, 290

G

Gabbard, Krin, 7 , 328 –29, 330 , 331 , 332 , 333

Gance, Abel, 133

Gangster genre:

allusions to, in New Jack City , 135 –36;

Godfather films' rewriting of, 174 –76

Garber, Marjorie, 217 , 223 , 231 , 231 nn1,2, 233 n19

García Márquez, Gabriel, 177 , 178 , 183

Garland, Judy, 81 , 83 , 84 , 85 , 85 fig., 88 , 91

Garner, James, 1

Garrett, Betty, 80

Gates, Larry, 22

Gavin, John, 202

Gaynor, Janet, 81 , 82 , 82 fig., 83 , 84 , 85 , 91 , 93 n10

Geissendörfer, Hans W., 264

Gelbart, Larry, 317 , 318 –19, 320

Gender:

artificial alterations of, 217 –18, 231 n1;

in Damned If You Don't , 226 –30, 234 nn31,33;

and desire, 224 ;

in High Heels , 205 –9, 214 n2;

and identity, 230 –31;

implications of, on remakes, 8 –9, 332 ;

in Invisible Adversaries , 220 –24, 233 nn19,20;

reversed roles of, in A Star Is Born , 84 , 90 –91, 98 ;

transformed categories of, 9 , 202 , 205 –9, 211 –14.

See also Motherhood; Women

Genette, Gerard, 3

Genre:

as formula for myth, 167 , 170 –71n7;

Hong Kong's transformation of, 193 ;

postmodern hybridization of, 204 ;

remake as subcategory of, 331 ;

television's expectations of, 316 –17

Gentlemen's Agreement (1947), 104

Georgakas, Dan, 7

Gere, Richard, 151 , 152 fig.

German cinema, 242 , 243 , 245

Geronimo (1939), 30

Gever, Martha, 227 , 234 n33

Ghostbusters (1984), 30

Ghostlusters (1991), 30

Gibson, Mel, 1 , 10

Giroux, Henry A., 173

Gitlin, Todd, 179

Glass, Philip, 157

Godard, Jean-Luc, 8 , 29 , 150 , 152 , 154 –55, 157 , 204 . See also A bout de souffle

Goddard, Paulette, 30

The Godfather (1972), 4 , 135 , 172 , 175 fig., 183

Godfather films (I and II), 172 , 175 fig.;

ambivalent Catholicism of, 186 –87;

and New Jack City , 135 ;

patriarchal culture of, 185 , 186 ;

as rewritten gangster genre, 174 –76;

and Time of the Gypsies , 177 , 183 –87;

tragic cinematic tone of, 178

Goldman, William, 9


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"Goodbye" (song), 109

Goodfellas (1991), 37

Goodman, Benny, 107 –9, 112 –13n8

Goodman, John, 116

Goodman, Nelson, 297 , 330

Gothic realism:

magic realism vs. , 177 –78

"Gotta Have Me Go with You" (song), 84 , 85 –86

Gould, Chester, 285

Gould, Elliott, 112 n7, 312

Granger, Stewart, 93 n9, 234 n27

Grant, Cary, 68 n11, 93 n9

The Grapes of Wrath (1940), 180

The Great Ecstasy of Woodsculptor Steiner (1974), 245

The Great Train Robbery (1905), 134

Greenberg, Harvey, 8 , 18 , 182 , 329 , 333

Greene, Graham, 52

Greenway, Peter, 10

The Grey Fox (1982), 134

Grlic, Rajko, 180 , 181

Grosz, Elizabeth A., 211

Guardian Angel (1987), 181

Gun Crazy (1949), 156

The Guns of Navarone (1961), 193 , 195

A Guy Named Joe (1943), 8 , 115 –16, 116 fig., 118 , 120

Gypsies, 176 , 177 –78, 181 , 183 , 184 –85

H

Hackford, Taylor, 29

Hake, Sabine, 242

Hale, Alan, 74

Hall, Stuart, 16

Hallatt, May, 234 n28

Hamlet (Shakespeare), 163

Hammett, Dashiell, 4

Hampton, Lionel, 108

Handy, W. C., 109 , 111

The Harder They Fall (1956), 154

Harriman, George, 286

Hart, Harvey, 29

Hart, James V., 273 n2, 292 n11

Harvie, William J., 23 –24

Hathaway, Henry, 29

Haver, Ron, 92 n7

Hawks, Howard, 29 , 30

Heart of Glass (1976), 245

Heaven Can Wait (1978), 126 n1

Hegel, Friedrich, 3

Henderson, Fletcher, 107 –8, 112 –13n8, 113 n9

Henry IV (Shakespeare), 133

Hepburn, Audrey, 127 n4

Her Name of Venice in Deserted Calcutta (1977, Son Nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert ), 234 –35n34

Herrmann, Bernard, 40 , 67 n3, 68 n9

Herzog, Werner, 28 , 239 , 240 , 243 –46, 262 . See also Nosferatu, the Vampyre

Hess, John, 187

High Heels (1991, Tacones Lejanos ), 8 ;

cinematic allusions in, 202 –3;

fetishistic substitution in, 210 –12;

and Imitation of Life , 200 –201, 214 n1, 332 ;

male motherhood of, 212 –14;

melodramatic modes of, 202 –4;

as postmodern remake, 200 , 202 –4;

presentation of gender in, 205 –9, 214 n2

High Noon (1952), 30 , 191

High Society (1956), 80

Hill, George Roy, 9 , 137

His Gal Friday (1941), 30

Historical/cultural context:

of film remakes, 6 , 97 , 163 , 327 ;

identity as process and, 16 –18, 20 ;

intertextual readings vs. , 330 –32;

originality's tension with, 328 –30;

semiotic field and, 25

Hitchcock, Alfred, 7 , 29 , 30 , 35 , 50 –51n2, 193 . See also Hitchcock's films; Hitchcock's remakes

Hitchcock, Patricia, 55 , 59 , 67 n2

Hitchcok's films:

Basic Instinct and, 37 –38;

Cape Fear and, 7 , 39 , 40 , 49 –50, 333 ;

of characters' mutuality, 45 –46;

film-shooting device of, 36 –37;

moral ambiguity of, 34 –35, 43 , 49 ;

Taxi Driver and, 38 –39;

vulnerable domesticity of, 48 –49.

See also The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

Hitchcock's remakes:

of Albert Hall sequence, 58 , 64 –65;

as form of exchange, 67 ;

of Notorious staircase scene, 66 , 68 n11;

obsessional concerns of, 53 –54;

of "Que Sera, Sera," 66 ;

of sequences/themes, 53 ;

of transitions between shots, 52 –53.

See also The Man Who Knew Too Much (1955)

Hoberman, J., 95 , 100 , 110 , 112 n4

Hodge, Mike, 285


349

Hogan's Alley (cartoon series), 291 n4

Holiday Inn (1942, 1954), 30

Hollander, John, 141

Hollywood films:

criticism/admiration of, 191 –92, 196 –97;

cross-cultural makeovers of, 8 , 173 –74;

European cinema's allusions to, 178 –79, 180 –81;

Hong Kong remakes of, 192 –97;

mother/whore dichotomy of, 302

Hollywood Shuffle (1987), 191

Hollywood studios:

disguised remakes of, 126 n1;

economic motivation of, 5 , 18 ;

New Deal politics of, 70 –71;

1950's restructuring of, 81 –83, 92 –93n8

Holmlund, Chris, 8 –9, 330 , 332

Holt, J. C., 78 n2

Home Alone (1990), 134 , 139 –41, 140 fig., 142 –43n3

Home Alone 2:

Lost in New York (1992), 142 –43n3

Homosexuality:

in Damned If You Don't , 218 , 224 , 227 –28, 229 , 233 –34n25, 234 nn 31,33;

in Valie Export's films, 223 , 233 n 24;

in Strangers on a Train , 46

Honey, I Blew up the Kid (1992), 4 –5

Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), 133

Hong Kong cinema:

allusions to 1997 in, 197 –98;

as Hollywood imitations, 192 –97;

as local remakes, 193

Hook (1991), 124 , 128 n14

Hooper, Tobe, 137

Hornberger, Richard (pseud. Richard Hooker), 311

Horror film genre:

perception/representation in, 258 –60;

violent sexuality of, 251 –52

The Horror of Dracula (1956, Fischer), 240 , 255 –56, 257 fig., 273 n1;

belief/disbelief aspect of, 259 ;

universal Dracula themes of, 264 , 265 , 267

Horton, Andrew, 8 , 329

Houseman, John, 58

Howard the Duck (1986), 284

Hughes, John, 134 , 138 –41

Hunter, Holly, 117 fig., 117 –18, 120

Hunter, Ian, 73 , 74

Hurst, Fannie, 201

The Hustler (1961), 332

Huston, John, 5

Hutcheon, Linda, 200 , 205 , 209 , 213 , 215 n11

Huyck, Willard, 284

Hyams, Peter, 30

Hypertextuality, 3 . See also Intertextuality

I

"I Believe in Love" (song), 89

I Confess (1953), 40 , 44 , 45 –46

I Have Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967), 181

Imagery:

cinematic importance of, 132 –33;

presence/absence paradigm of, 238 –39, 242 –43, 245 –46, 258 ;

written word and, 154 –55

Imitation of Life (1959), 8 , 200 –201, 202 –3, 203 fig., 212 , 214 n1, 332

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), 115 , 128 n13

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), 137 , 191

India Song (1976), 234 –35n34

Inge, Thomas M., 291 nn3,4

Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, 133

Intermarriage:

in The Jazz Singer , 99 , 104

Intermezzo (1936), 30

Intertextuality:

film remakes and, 4 –5;

Genette's categories of, 3 –4;

Kristeva's notion of, 2 –3;

as modernist technique, 39 , 40 ;

postmodern aesthetic of, 8 , 200 , 201 –2.

See also Adaptations; Allusions; Film remakes; Translation

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), 17 fig., 30 ;

bomb paranoia and, 31 n4;

cultural identity issues and, 15 –18;

gender politics of, 220 , 232 n15;

historical context of, 21 –25;

and Invisible Adversaries , 219 –20, 221 , 222 , 233 n17, 233 n18;

unacknowledged release of, 19 –20

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), 15 , 20 fig., 30;

cultural identity issues and, 16 –17;

historical context of, 25 –28;

reasons for making, 19

Invisible Adversaries (1976, Unsichtbare Gegner ), 218 ;

chaotic film style of, 220 , 233 n18;

gendered subjectivity and, 220 –21, 223 –24, 230 , 233 n20;

necessary spectatorship of, 223 , 233 n23;

opening sequence of, 220 , 233 nn16, 17 ;

performance pieces in, 221 –22, 233 n21;

totalitarianism fears in, 219 , 232 n11

Irigaray, Luce, 210 , 215 n9

Island of Lost Souls (1933), 272

Iterability structure, 147 –48, 149 , 154 ;

as


350

inversions, 156 –57;

of popular narrative, 288 ;

repetition compulsion and, 251

"It's a New World" (song), 90

It's a Wonderful Life (1946), 134

Ivanhoe (Scott), 78 n2

Ivory, James, 10

J

Jackson, Michael, 217 , 231 –32n2

Jacobs, Lea, 19

James, Henry, 52

Jameson, Frederic, 119 , 127 n8, 128 nn9,10

JanMohamed, Abdul, 231

Jarreau, Al, 112 n5

Jaws (1975), 36 –37, 191

Jazz, 106 –8, 110 –11, 113 n9

The Jazz Singer (1927), 7 , 101 fig.;

as appropriation of black music, 110 –11, 113 n9;

biopics' faithfulness to, 105 –6, 107 , 108 , 109 –10, 111 , 329 ;

female variants of, 98 , 112 n3;

as first show musical, 98 –99;

plot elements of, 97 –98;

reconciliatory conclusion of, 98 –101;

remakes of, 95 –96, 99

table, 104 –5, 112 n7

The Jazz Singer (1952), 7 , 101 –5, 102 fig., 112 n7

The Jazz Singer (1959 TV production), 104 , 112 n6

The Jazz Singer (1980), 7 , 101 –2, 102 fig., 104 , 105 , 112 n5

Jenkins, Gordon, 109

Jennings, Wade, 93 n13

Jewish assimilation, 95 , 97 , 99 . See also Reconciliation

JFK (1991), 26

Johnson, Brad, 117 fig.

Johnson, Van, 116 , 116 fig., 120

Jolson, Al, 95 , 97 , 101 fig., 106 –7, 110

The Jolson Story (1946), 95 , 106 –7

Jonathan (1970), 264

Jonestown suicide, 25 –26

Jourdan, Louis, 273 n3

Joyce, James, 2 , 3

K

Kael, Pauline, 26

Kaplan, Ann, 25 , 209

Kaprisky, Valérie, 151 , 152 fig.

Karanovic, Srdjan, 181

Kashishian, Alex, 30

Kaufman, George S., 310

Kaufman, Philip, 19 , 26 , 27 , 30 , 169 . See also Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Kawin, Bruce, 243

Kazan, Elia, 29

Keaton, Diane, 186

Kefauver, Estes, 22

Kehr, David, 200 , 204 , 214 n4

Kellerman, Sally, 312

Kennedy, John F., 6 , 26

Kerr, Deborah, 226

Kiernan, Joanna, 233 n23

Kill or Run (1954), 191

Kinder, Marsha, 208 , 213

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 26

King, Stephen, 137

King Kong (1933), 272

Kinski, Klaus, 240 , 244 –45, 244 fig., 245 , 255 fig., 263

Kiss Me Again (1925), 28

Kitt, Eartha, 30 , 109

Klein, Melanie, 274 n13

Kleiser, Randal, 30

Kohner, Susan, 201

Kolker, Robert, 7 , 333

Konigsberg, Ira, 9 , 328 , 330 –31

Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 74

Kors, Alan C., 78 n3

Kowal, Patricia, 285 –86

Kristeva, Julia, 2 –3

Kristofferson, Kris, 84 , 85 , 89

Kroker, Arthur, 205

Kubrick, Stanley, 136

Kurosawa, Akira, 4 , 29 , 137

Kusturica, Emir, 4 , 8 , 172 ;

on magic realism, 177 –78;

oedipal narratives of, 182 –83;

realist/surrealist vision of, 180 –81.

See also Time of the Gypsies (1989)

L

La Bamba (1987), 95 , 109 –10

Lady for a Day (1936), 18 , 28

Lang, Fritz, 29 , 141

Langella, Frank, 240 , 253 fig.

Lardner, Ring, Jr., 312

The Last House on the Left (1972), 8 , 168 fig.;

antisuburban myth of, 167 –69;

plot line of, 164 ;

as uncredited remake, 162 , 163 ;

violence of, 164 –65, 169

The Last Laugh (1924), 243

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), 39 –40

Laugh track:

on M*A*S*H series, 316 , 318

Launder, Frank, 30


351

LaValley, Albert, 19 , 232 n10

Laven, Arnold, 30

Lee, Christopher, 240 , 255 –56, 257 fig., 268 , 270

Lee, Peggy, 102 fig., 104 , 109

Lee, Spike, 10

Lee, Stan, 292 –93n14

Legion of Decency, 19

Lehman, Peter, 9 , 126 –27n2, 330 , 331

Leone, Sergio, 29

Lesbianism. See Homosexuality

Lesser, Wendy, 68 n9

Lethal Weapon films, 76

Levant, Brian, 29

Levine, Lawrence, 285

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 287

Levy, Eugene, 112 n5

Lewis, Jerry, 95 , 104 , 112 n6

Lewis, Jerry Lee, 157 , 158

Lewis, Joseph H., 156

Linville, Larry, 320 , 323

Lipsitz, George, 20 , 24 , 28

Literary works:

cinematic allusions to, 133 ;

film adaptations of, 53 , 170 n3, 295 , 296 , 333 –34n2;

intertextuality of, 2 –3;

revisions of, 52 .

See also Novel, the

"Little Red Riding Hood," 139

A Little Romance (1979), 137

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), 29

Lloyd, David, 231

The Lodger (1927), 53 , 58

The Long Goodbye (1973), 112 n7

Lorre, Peter, 56 , 57 fig., 245

Lowell-Rich, David, 29

Lubitsch, Ernst, 28

Lucas, George, 193 , 280

Lucy, Autherine, 23

Luft, Sid, 83

Lugosi, Bela, 240 , 245 , 256 fig., 263 –64, 268

Luhr, William, 126 –27n2

Lumière and Company (1995, Lumière et Compagnie ), 10

Lumière brothers, 280

Lynch, David, 10 , 168

Lyon, Elizabeth, 233 n20

M

M (1931), 141 , 142 –43n3

McAvoy, May, 101 fig.

McBride, Jim, 8 , 29 , 150 , 152 , 329 . See also Breathless (1983)

McCarthy, Joseph, 21

McCarthy, Kevin, 17 , 17 fig., 22 , 220

McCay, Winsor, 286

MacDonald, Scott, 233 –34n25, 234 n33

McDougal, Stuart, 7 , 333

McEwan, Geraldine, 76

McHale, Brian, 206

McKean, Dave, 290

McShane, Michael, 76

Madame Bovary (1991), 285

Madame X (1929, 1937, 1966, 1981), 29 , 332

Madonna, 112 n3

Magic realism:

vs. gothic realism, 177 –78;

of Yugoslav films, 181 , 183

The Magnificent Seven (1960), 4 , 170

Makeovers:

as covert remake, 174 ;

multicultural allusions of, 172 –73, 178 –82.

See also Film remakes; Time of the Gypsies

The Maltese Falcon (1941 film), 5

Maltin, Leonard, 163

"Mammy" (song), 99 , 100 , 110

Manara, Milo, 292 n6

"The Man That Got Away" (song), 84 , 85 fig., 88

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), 5 , 29 , 52 , 57 fig.;

dissatisfaction with, 58 –59, 333 ;

doubling structure of, 55 –56;

performance/spectatorship in, 54 ;

two climaxes of, 56 –57

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1955), 5 , 7 , 29 , 52 , 65 fig.;

Albert Hall sequence of, 64 –65;

casting of, 61 , 67 n3;

doubling structure of, 62 , 66 , 68 n10;

locale/protagonists of, 59 ;

musical performances of, 61 , 63 , 64 , 65 –66;

oedipal dynamics of, 59 –60, 62 , 63 –64;

recognition scene in, 62 , 67 n5;

resolved marital tension of, 66 –67;

unstable identity in, 59 , 60 –61, 62 , 63 , 64 , 67 nn3,4

Marc, David, 316 , 319

March, Fredric, 84 , 93 n10

Marnie (1964), 38

Marshall, George, 296

Martial arts genre, 193 , 195

Marx, Groucho, 182

The Mary Tyler Moore Show (TV series), 315 , 316

M*A*S*H (1970), 311 –14, 314 fig.

M*A*S*H (TV series), 315 fig.;

audience reception of, 313 , 315 , 317 ;

creativity/


352

experimentation of, 311 , 317 –19;

Emmy Awards to, 316 ;

film elements of, 313 , 314 ;

network resistance to, 315 –16, 319 –20;

sentimentalization of, 324 –25;

shifted emphasis of, 316 –17, 320 –21, 324 ;

Vietnam War and, 323 –24

MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital), 311 , 320

Mason, James, 84 , 88 , 93 n9

Massey, Raymond, 121

Mast, Gerald, 162

Mastrantonio, Mary Elizabeth, 77

Mathieu, Georges, 220

Matusow, Harvey M., 21

The Maury Povich Show (TV series), 206 , 214 n6

Maverick (1994), 1 , 9 –10, 29

Mayerik, Val, 284

Mayne, Judith, 248

Mazursky, Paul, 191

Medical discourse:

on abortion, 27 –28;

of anti-integrationists, 23 –25;

on polio vaccine, 21 –22

Melford, George, 273 n1

Méliès, Georges, 238 , 246

Melodramatic elements:

heterosexuality as, 224 ;

of High Heels , 202 –3;

of A Star Is Born , 84 , 88 , 89 –90

The Melody Haunts My Memory (1980, Samo Jednom Se Ljubi ), 180 , 181

Melrose Place (TV series), 1

Melton, Gordon J., 263 , 273 n6

The Men (1950), 104

Menjou, Adophe, 82 fig.

Menschenfrauen (film), 233 nn21,24

Metatextuality, 3 . See also Intertextuality

Metz, Christian, 132 , 238 –39, 243 , 246 , 248

Michaels, Lloyd, 9 , 258

Mihic, Goran, 177 , 181 , 188 n2

Mildred Pierce (1945), 202

Milestone, Lewis, 29 , 30

Milk, Harvey, 26

Miller, Robert Ellis, 29

Miller, Seton I., 71

Miracle on 34th Street (1947), 134

Misogyny:

linguistic otherness and, 155 ;

of 1956 Body Snatchers , 220 , 232 n15

Mr. Canton and Lady Rose (1989), 193

Mitchum, Robert, 2 , 6 , 40 , 41 fig., 332

Modleski, Tania, 38

Molander, Gustav, 30

Mommie Dearest (1981), 204

Moore, Alan, 289 , 290

Moore, Juanita, 201

Moore, Marianne, 52

Morgan! (1966), 136

Morgan, Harry, 321 , 322

Morrison, Grant, 290

Morton, Jelly Roll, 113 n9

Moscone, George, 26

Motherhood:

Dracula myth's inversion of, 269 –71;

fetishism and, 210 –12;

masculine reproduction of, 212 –14;

Oedipal dynamics and, 207 –9.

See also Women

Murder, My Sweet (1944), 29

Murnau, F. W., 28 , 239 , 240 , 249 n2. See also Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

Murphy Brown (TV series), 325

Musical performance:

allusions to, 134 ;

as Breathless subtext, 157 –58;

defined as remake, 68 n9;

as exploration of stardom, 83 , 84 –85, 86 , 88 , 90 ;

Hitchcock's use of, 61 , 63 , 64 , 65 –66

Musical remakes, 7 ;

love duets of, 89 ;

reconciliatory conclusion of, 98 –100;

types of, 80 –81, 91 –92n1, 92 nn2–4

My Blue Heaven (1990), 134

My Own Private Idaho (1991), 133

My Sister Eileen (1955), 80

The Mystery of Kasper Hauser (1974), 245

Myth:

of American inclusiveness, 100 –101;

of American suburb, 167 –69;

comics as, 287 –90, 292 –93n14;

of creation, 184 –85;

genre's formulation of, 167 , 170 –71 n7;

iterative mechanism of, 288 ;

originality notion and, 287 –89;

popular vs. classical, 167 , 170 –71n7;

remake's bond with, 166 –67, 328 ;

of Robin Hood, 71 , 74 –75;

of stardom, 82 –83.

See also Dracula myth

McGilligan, Patrick, 92 n5

N

Narratives:

Edward Branigan on, 2 , 173 ;

deep structure vs. cultural contexts of, 96 –97;

Hitchcock's formal construction of, 34 –35;

myth vs. novel, 287 –88;

oedipal thrust of, 125 ;

overt vs. covert, 174

Nash, Jay Robert, 285

Native Americans, 300 –301, 308 n1

Naughty Cadets on Patrol (1986), 192

NBC Theatre. See Screen Directors Playhouse


353

Necrophilia, 264 , 273 n7

Nelson, Ralph, 95

New Jack City (1991), 135 –36

Newman, David, 284 , 285 , 287 , 289 , 328 , 330

Newman, Leslie, 328 , 330

Newman, Paul, 332

Ngor, Haing S., 194

Niblo, Fred, 28

Nichols, Bill, 4

Nigerian cinema, 192

Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), 49 , 169

Nimoy, Leonard, 25

1941 (1979), 115

Ninotchka (1939), 80

Nitzsche, Jack, 157

Noiret, Philippe, 179

North by Northwest (1959), 53 , 56

Nosferatu (term), 263 , 273 n6

Nosferatu:

A Symphony of Horror (1922), 28 , 254 fig., 262 , 273 n1;

as adaptation of novel, 241 –42, 249 n2;

dream quality of, 255 ;

Herzog's transformation of, 243 –45;

presence/absence devices of, 239 , 242 –43;

reproduced copies of, 241 ;

universal Dracula themes of, 263 , 265 , 266 , 267

Nosferatu, the Vampyre (1979), 28 , 244 –47, 244 fig., 247 fig., 255 fig., 262 , 273 n1;

dream quality of, 255 ;

literary/cinematic allusions of, 245 –46, 246 –47;

presence/absence devices of, 239 , 245 –46, 249 n5;

self-reflexivity of, 241 , 248 ;

as transformation of original, 240 –41, 243 –46, 249 n3;

universal Dracula themes of, 263 , 265 , 266 , 267

Nostalgia films, 119 , 128 n9

Notational system:

of allographic arts, 297 –98;

in theater vs. cinema, 298 –99

Notorious (1946), 38 , 66 , 68 n11

Novel, the:

comics vs.,287 –88;

film and, 286 .

See also Literary works

Nyby, Christian, 30

Nykvist, Sven, 165

O

O'Brien, Geoffrey, 192

Obsession (1976), 29

Oedipal narrative:

of Always, 8 , 18 , 117 fig., 122 , 124 ;

of La Bamba,110 ;

of Close Encounters,124 ;

of Dracula films, 268 –69;

of East of Eden,121 –22;

of E.T., 123 , 124 ;

of High Heels,207 –9;

of Hook, 124 , 128 n14;

of Indiana Jones,124 , 128 n13;

of The Jazz Singer 1927, 96 , 97 ;

of Kusturica's films, 182 –83;

of The Man Who Knew Too Much 1955, 59 –60, 62 , 63 –64;

reconciliatory conclusion of, 98 –100;

remakes' ties to, 7 –8, 18 , 125 –26, 129 nn16,17, 182 , 329 , 332 .

See also Reconciliation

Oland, Warner, 192

Oldham, Gary, 252 fig., 266 , 274 n12

Oliver, King, 113 n9

Olivier, Laurence, 104

"One More Look at You" (song), 89 , 90

"Openings" (musical theme), 157 , 158

Originals:

autographic arts as, 297 –98, 300 ;

history's tension with, 328 –30;

literary works as, 295 , 296 ;

mythological narrative and, 287 –89;

status of, in adaptations, 284 –86, 289 –90, 333 –34n2.

See also Film originals

Orpheus (1949), 273 n4

Ortega y Gasset, José, 163

Ory, Kid, 107 , 112 –13n8

Ostrander, John, 292 –93n14

Outland (1981), 30

Out of the Past (1948), 29

Overture to Glory (1940), 100

P

Pacific Heights (1990), 49

Pacino, Al, 175 fig., 178

Pallette, Eugene, 73 , 74

Panofsky, Erwin, 132

Paramount decrees (1948), 81

Paratextuality, 3 . See also Intertextuality

Paredes, Marisa, 201 , 202 204

Parker, Charlie, 104

Parks, Rosa, 23

Paskalovic, Goran, 181

Pavlovic, Zivojn, 181

Peck, Gregory, 40 , 41 fig., 195 , 332

Peckinpah, Sam, 169

Peirce, Charles Sanders, 132

Peking Opera Blues (1986), 198

Pennies from Heaven (1981), 92 n3

Performance pieces:

in Valie Export's films, 221 –22, 233 n21

Persona (1966), 249 n1

Peters, Edward, 78 n3

Petria's Wreath (1980), 181

Petrovic, Alexander, 181


354

Pettersson, Brigitta, 166 fig.

Philadelphia Story (1940), 80

Phillips, Lou Diamond, 109

Pidgeon, Walter, 81

Pierson, Frank, 29 , 92 n6. See also A Star Is Born (1976)

Pilbeam, Nova, 54 , 57 fig.

Place, Mary Kay, 320

Plastic surgery:

and film remakes, 218

A Pocketful of Miracles (1961), 18 , 28 , 193

Point of No Return (1993), 29

Police Academy (1984), 192

Poltergeist (1982), 137

Poltergeist II (1986), 137

Poeye (1980), 284 , 292 n10

Popular culture:

cinematic allusions to, 133 –34;

as ideologically vacant, 119 , 128 n10;

mythological model of, 287 –89;

sentimentalized icons of, 324 –25;

translation of originals from, 285 –86, 288 –91

Porter, Lewis, 111 –12n1

Postergeist (1982), 168

Postmodernism:

deoedipalizing urge of, 329 ;

feminist critique of, 209 –10, 213 , 215 nn9,11;

gender presentation of, 202 , 205 –9;

hybridization characteristics of, 203 –4;

privileged masculinity of, 212 –14;

radical intertextuality of, 8 , 200 , 202

Poststudio era, 82 –83, 333 . See also Hollywood studios

Powell, Michael, 39 , 224 , 228 , 234 nn26–28

Prénom Carmen (1983, First Name Carmen ), 157

Presence/absence paradigm, 238 –39, 242 –43, 245 –46;

and perception/representation, 258

Pressburger, Emeric, 228 , 234 n28

The Pride of the Marines (1945), 104

Propp, Vladimir, 243

Psycho (1960), 29 , 35 , 67 n2, 68 n8;

as articulation of despair, 41 –42, 48 , 49 ;

Cape Fear 1962 and, 40 –41, 42 ;

doubling structure of, 43 ;

Taxi Driver and, 38 –39

Pursey, Everett, 22

Puttnam, David, 180

Puzo, Mario, 172 , 174 , 295

Q

Quayle, Dan, 325

"The Queen Bee" (song), 85 , 86

"Que Sera, Sera" (song), 63 , 66

Quinlan, Cathy, 229

R

Rabinowitz, Peter J., 142 n1

Race:

artificial alterations of, 217 –18, 231 –32n2;

in Black Narcissus,226 , 234 n29;

identity and, 230 , 234 –35n34;

medical discourse tied to, 23 –24;

oedipal/assimilation dynamics and, 97 ;

sexism and, 226 ;

Stagecoach 's perspective on, 300 –301, 308 n2.

See also African-American culture

Radio adaptations, 9 ;

film director's role on, 296 –97, 307 –8;

film stars in, 295 –96;

of story elements/dialogue, 307 .

See also Stagecoach (radio adaptation)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), 115 , 117 –18, 134 , 137

Rain (1932), 29

Raine, Norman Reilly, 71

Rains, Claude, 68 n11, 72 , 74

Raising Cain (1992), 29 , 138

Rambo (1985), 193 , 196

Rank, Otto, 274 n11

Raphaelson, Samson, 100

Rapper, Irving, 30

Raskind, Dick (pseud. Renée Richards), 217 , 231 n1

Rathbone, Basil, 72 , 74

Ratoff, Gregory, 30

Ray, Nicholas, 41 , 48

Ray, Robert B., 100

Raymond, Alex, 285

Rayns, Tony, 197

Rear Window (1955), 29 , 61 , 67 n5

Rebecca (1940), 58

Reconciliation:

of La Bamba,110 ;

of The Benny Goodman Story,108 –9;

of The Jazz Singer films, 98 –100, 101 –4;

of The Jolson Story,106 ;

as myth of inclusiveness, 100 –101;

as revolt against tradition, 110 ;

of St. Louis Blues,109 ;

television parodies of, 112 n5;

as unresolved dilemma, 104 , 112 n6

Reed, Carol, 142 –43n3

Reed, Donna, 107 , 112 –13n8

Reinterpretations, 80 –81, 92 n3. See also Musical remakes

Reitberger, Reinhold, 291 n4

Reitman, Ivan, 30


355

Remakes. See Film remakes

Renoir, Jean, 29 , 174 , 191

Renunciation theme, 116

Repetition compulsion, 251 . See also Iterability structure

Resnais, Alain, 240

Reville, Alma (Mrs. Alfred Hitchcock), 59

Reynolds, Gene, 319 , 320

Reynolds, Kevin, 74

Rich, B. Ruby, 210

Richards, Dick, 29

Richards, Renée, 217 , 231 n1

Rickman, Alan, 76

Roberts, Pernell, 322

Robin (1922), 70

Robin and Marian (1976), 77

Robin Hood:

Prince of Thieves (1991), 7 , 75 fig.;

critical reaction to, 78 ;

failed elements of, 75 –77, 78 n3;

political agenda of, 70 , 74 –75

Robin Hood TV series, 70 , 78 n1

Robson, May, 82 fig.

Rocky (1976), 134

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), 202

Roddam, Frank, 30

Rodrig, Antonio, 234 n28

Roeg, Nicholas, 29

Rogers, Wayne, 321 , 322

Rogin, Michael, 95 , 97 , 110 –11, 113 n9, 329

Rohmer, Eric, 50 –51n2

Romero, George, 169

Rookie of the Year (TV drama), 307

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 70

Ropars, Marie-Claire, 150 , 155

Rosenblatt, Josef, 98 , 111 –12n1

Ross, Stanley Ralph, 285

Runyon, Damon, 18

Ryan, Michael, 20

S

Saberhagen, Fred, 292 n11

Saboteur (1942), 53

Sabu, 226

Sadie Thompson (1928), 29

St. James, Gaylord, 164

St. Louis Blues (1958), 95 , 109 , 111

Salk, Jonas, 21 –22

Samo Hung, 193 –94, 197

Samuels, Stuart, 31 n4

Sander, Helke, 233 n22

Sandrich, Mark, 30

Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1979, Every Man for Himself ), 157

Sayre, Nora, 16 , 17

Scarface (1932), 29

Scarface (1983), 29 , 135

Scarlet Street (1945), 29

Schickel, Richard, 17

Schmidt-Reitwein, Jorg, 245

School desegregation, 23 –25

Schreck, Max, 240 , 243 –44, 254 fig., 263

Scorsese, Martin, 2 , 5 , 6 , 35 ;

commercial film attempts of, 40 ;

filmmaking techniques of, 37 , 51 n3, 332 ;

Hitchcockian reformulations of, 38 –39, 333 ;

modernist intertextuality of, 39 , 40 ;

violent imagery of, 43 .

See also Cape Fear (1991)

Scott, Sir Walter, 78 n2

Screen Directors Guild, 296 , 307 –8

Screen Directors Playhouse (formerly NBC Theatre ), 307 ;

radio adaptations on, 295 –97, 300

Scrooge (1935), 136

SCTV (Second City TV), 112 n5

The Searchers (1956), 35

Seberg, Jean, 151 , 151 fig.

Selznick, David O., 58 , 92 nn5,6

Semiotic field (concept), 25

Sequel films, 91 –92n1, 137 . See also Film remakes

Series films, 91 –92n1. See also Film remakes

Seven Beauties (1976), 133

Seven Samurai (1954), 4 , 137 , 170

Sexuality:

African Americans and, 107 –8, 111 , 112 nn3, 8 ;

as Dracula subtext, 245 , 249 n4;

exploitation of, in Basic Instinct , 37 –38;

as female-centered, 186 ;

genital-to-oral regression of, 269 –70, 274 n10;

plague/disease theme and, 263 , 264 , 273 n7;

and sexual repression motif, 266 –68;

violence and, 41 , 42 –43, 48 , 251 –52

Shadow of a Doubt (1943), 43

Shakespeare, William, 2 , 133 , 163

Sheehan, Henry, 234 n29

Shengold, Leonard, 271

Shepherd, Richard, 18

The Shining (1980), 273 n4

Shklovsky, Victor, 6 , 173

Showalter, Elaine, 214

Show Boat (1951), 80


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Show musical, 92 n4;

reconciliatory conclusion of, 98 –100.

See also Musical remakes

Shuster, Joe, 288 –89

Siebert, Martina, 226

Siegel, Don, 30 , 232 n10. See also Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Siegel, Jerry, 288 –89

Silk Stockings (1957), 80 , 92 n2

Silverman, Kaja, 208

Simmons, Jean, 226 , 234 nn27, 28

The Simpsons (TV series), 112 n5

Sinclair, Upton, 71

Singin' in the Rain (1952), 92 n3

Sirk, Douglas, 8 , 41 , 48 , 200

Sleeping with the Enemy (1991), 49

Sloane, Paul H., 30

Sluizer, George, 67 n1

Smith, Barbara Herrnstein, 96 , 97 , 104 , 328

Smith, Patti, 229

Some Like It Hot (1959), 192 , 202

"Someone at Last" (song), 88

Somigli, Luca, 9 , 330 , 331

Soul Man (1986), 112 n7

Spectatorship:

and dreaming, 257 –58;

in Invisible Adversaries , 223 , 233 n23;

in The Man Who Knew Too Much , 54 –57;

and perception/representation, 258 ;

presence/absence paradigm and, 245 , 258 ;

in The Thirty-Nine Steps , 58 .

See also Audience reception

Spielberg, Stephen, 8 , 18 ;

blind spots of, 118 –19;

filmmaking devices of, 36 –37, 137 ;

Guy Named Joe fascination of, 115 –16, 120 , 122 ;

parental relationships with, 120 –21, 122 –23;

paternal images of, 123 –24, 128 n13;

psychological themes of, 128 n14;

remaking influence of, 125 , 129 n18.

See also Always

The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), 245

Stagecoach (1939), 301 –3, 304 fig., 305 –7, 308 nn2,3

Stagecoach (radio adaptation):

aesthetic final scene of, 306 ;

film stars of, 295 –96;

mother/whore dichotomy of, 302 ;

paradoxical production of, 296 –97, 308 ;

racial ideology of, 300 –301;

scenesetting dialogue of, 303 –4

Stage Fright (1950), 40 , 44 , 45

Stahl, John, 201

Star, Darren, 1

Stardom:

Al Jolson's approach to, 106 –7;

music as exploration of, 83 , 84 –85, 86 , 88 , 90 ;

in poststudio era, 83

A Star Is Born (1937), 7 , 29 , 81 , 82 fig.;

latent stardom of, 86 , 93 n10;

melodramatic elements of, 84 , 89 –90;

re-releases of, 93 n13;

screenplay credits for, 92 n6;

What Price Hollywood? and, 92 n5

A Star Is Born (1954), 7 , 29 , 85 fig.;

as CinemaScope film, 81 , 92 –93n8;

melodramatic elements of, 88 , 89 –90;

music/stardom commitment of, 84 –85, 93 n9;

poststudio era of, 82 –83;

restored version of, 92 n7;

What Price Hollywood? and, 92 n5

A Star Is Born (1976), 7 , 29 , 81 , 87 fig.;

audiences of, and within, 88 , 91 , 93 n11;

concert world of, 83 ;

love duets of, 89 ;

music/stardom commitment of, 84 –85, 86 , 88 , 90 ;

remake category of, 126 n1;

screenplay credits for, 92 n6

Star Wars (1977), 193

State Fair (1962), 80

Steffen-Fluhr, Nancy, 233 n15

Stella Dallas (1937), 332

Steptoe, Patrick, 27

Stevenson, Adlai, 22

Stevenson, McLean, 320 , 322

Stewart, James, 38 , 59 , 61 , 67

Stiers, David Ogden, 321 , 323

The Sting (1973), 9 , 137

Stoker, Bram, 241 , 249 n2. See also Dracula (Stoker)

Stone, Oliver, 26

Straayer, Chris, 205

Strangers on a Train (1951), 30 ;

Cape Fear 1991 and, 40 , 44 , 47 –48;

doubling structure of, 46 –47, 51 n4;

loss of control in, 45

Straw Dogs (1971), 169

Streisand, Barbra, 83 , 84 , 85 , 86 , 87 fig., 88 , 91 , 93 n11

Sturken, Marita, 219

Subtitles, 148 –49, 150 , 155 , 160 nn1,4

Suburban myth, 167 –69

"Suicide Is Painless" (song), 313

Summers, Montague, 273 –74n9

Superman (1978), 279

Superman myth, 284 , 287 –90, 292 n13

Sutherland, Donald, 25 , 312

Sweet Bird of Youth (1962, 1989), 29

Sweet Dreams (1985), 98


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Swit, Loretta, 321

Sykora, Katharina, 234 n31

T

Tales of Hoffman (1951), 39

Tarkovsky, Andrei, 188

Taxi Driver (1976), 38 –39

Television:

cinema's ties to, 179 –80, 311 ;

cultural presence of, 204 ;

film studios' competition with, 81 , 92 –93n8;

genre expectations of, 316 –17

The Ten Commandments (1923, 1956), 28

Tepes, Vlad, 264 , 273 n8

That Uncertain Feeling (1941), 28

Theater, 163 , 298 –99, 327 –28

Thelma and Louise (1991), 10

"The Man That Got Away" (song), 84

These Three (1936), 30

The Thing (1951, 1982), 30 , 169

The Third Man (1949), 142 –43n3

The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935), 53 , 58

Thomas, Danny, 95 , 102 fig., 104 , 111 , 112 n7

Thompson, David, 214 nn1,7

Thompson, J. Lee, 40

Three Men and a Baby (1987), 5

Three Men and a Cradle (1985), 5

Throw Mamma from the Train (1987), 30

Tilton, Martha, 109

Time of the Gypsies (1989), 4 , 8 , 176 fig.;

as cross-cultural cinema, 172 –73, 182 , 187 –88;

Godfather trilogy and, 188 n1;

impermanence theme of, 183 –84, 187 ;

magic realism of, 177 –78;

matriarchal culture of, 184 –86;

plot line of, 176 , 177 ;

religious ritual of, 186 –87;

world cinematic allusions in, 178 –82

To Catch a Thief (1955), 47

Todorovic, Bora, 184 , 188 –89n4

Tomasini, George, 40

Topor, Roland, 245

Topps Comics, 281

Torch Song (1953), 112 n7

Tornatore, Giuseppe, 179

Tourneur, Jacques, 29

Townsend, Robert, 191

Tracy, Spencer, 116 , 116 fig., 120

Translation:

adaptation vs. , 284 , 290 ;

of comics to film, 283 –84, 285 –86, 290 –91;

inversion effects of, 155 –57, 158 , 160 n4;

mythical sources of, 287 –90;

subtitles' provision of, 149 –50, 160 n1.

See also Adaptations; Iterability structure

Translation theory, 285 –86, 330

Transsexualism, 9 , 205 –6, 217 –18, 233 n19

Transvestism, 9 , 202 , 205 , 206 , 211 –12, 217 –18

Trapper John, M.D. (TV series), 322

Trevor, Claire, 296

Troyano, Ela, 227

Trpkova, Simolicka, 185

Truffaut, François, 50 –51n2, 55 , 178 –79

Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991), 134

Trumbo, Dalton, 116

Truth or Bare (1992), 30

Truth or Dare (1991), 30 , 112 n3

Tsui Hark, 193 , 197 –98

Turner, Lana, 201 , 203 fig., 214 n4

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 136

Tyler, Parker, 206 , 211

U

Ullmann, Liv, 10

Universal Studios, 19

The Untouchables (1987), 135 , 138

V

Vadim, Roger, 29

Vagina dentata , 270 , 274 n11

Valens, Ritchie, 110

Valenti, Jack, 197

Vampire narratives, 9

Vampires:

Church's exploitation of, 265 , 273 –74n9;

cinematic representation and, 248 , 258 ;

imaginary quality of, 238 , 239 , 240 , 249 n1;

sexual interpretation of, 263 .

See also Dracula films; Dracula myth

Vande Wiele, Raymond L., 27 –28

The Vanishing (1989, 1992–93), 67 n1

Van Peebles, Mario, 135 –36

Varnhagen, Rahel, 233 n22

Verhoeven, Paul, 37 , 38

Vertigo (1958), 29 , 37 –38, 42 , 43 , 67 , 136

"Viaggio a Tulum" (comic), 292 n6

Vietnam War, 323 –24

Der Vilner Balebesl , 100 , 112 n4

Violence:

African-American stereotype of, 105 ;

cartoon allusion's containment of, 139 –41;

as Wes Craven trademark, 164 –65, 169 , 170 n5;

Hitchcock's representations of, 34 –35, 37 , 38 ;

and sexuality, 41 , 42 –43, 48 , 251 –52

The Virginia Spring (1959), 162 , 164 –66, 166 fig., 167

Vlad the Impaler, 264 , 273 n8


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Von Sternberg, Josef, 133

Von Sydow, Max, 164

Vosper, Frank, 54 , 57 fig.

Vuh, Popul, 243 , 244 , 245

W

Waddill, William, 27

Walsh, Raoul, 29

Warner, Jack, 71

Warner Brothers, 70 , 71 , 74 , 81 , 92 –93n8, 95 , 112 n7

"Watch Closely Now" (song), 90

Wayne, John, 296

Weekend (1968), 204

Weibel, Peter, 220

Weis, Elisabeth, 9 , 331

Welch, Joseph, 21

Welles, Orson, 133 , 178 , 280

Wellman, William, 29 , 92 n6

Wertmuller, Lina, 133

Whale, James, 30 , 245

What Price Hollywood? (1932), 81 , 92 n5

When Father Was Away on Business (1985), 183

When I was Dead and White (1967), 181

White, Dan, 26

White, Paul Dudley, 22

White Hunter, Black Heart (1990), 134

Widl, Susanne, 220

Willes, Jean, 22

Wills, David, 8 , 329

Wilson, Teddy, 108

Winner, Michael, 29

Witek, Joseph, 279 , 291 n1

The Wiz (1978), 80 , 92 n2

Wollen, Peter, 132 –33

Women:

as alienated doubles, 221 , 223 , 233 n20;

centrality of, in film, 184 –86;

fetishistic substitution and, 210 –12;

Hitchcock's portrayal of, 38 , 46 , 59 , 60 –61, 63 , 68 n7;

melodramatic portrayal of, 88 , 89 –90, 202 –3.

See also Gender; Motherhood

Woo, John, 193 , 198

Wood, G., 313

Wood, Rob, 78 n1

Wood, Robin, 61 , 68 n7

Wood, Sam, 29

Writing:

and imagery, 154 –55;

inversion of, 149 , 160 n1;

as trace of production, 148 –49

The Wrong Man (1956), 42

Wyler, William, 28 , 30

Wyman, Jane, 44

Wynter, Dana, 24 , 220

Y

Yellow Kid comic strip, 280 , 291 n4

Yojimbo (1961), 29 , 170

Young, Edward, 329

Young Frankenstein (1954), 30

Yugoslav cinema, 181 –82

Z

Zeffirelli, Franco, 18

Zinnemann, Fred, 30


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