Play It Again, Sam


 collapse sectionINTRODUCTION
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 collapse sectionPART ONE—  NEXT OF KIN:  REMAKES AND HOLLYWOOD
 collapse sectionOne—  Remakes and Cultural Studies
 Kinds of Remakes:  A Preliminary Taxonomy
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 collapse sectionTwo—  Algebraic Figures:  Recalculating the Hitchcock Formula
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 collapse sectionThree—  The Director Who Knew Too Much:  Hitchcock Remakes Himself
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 collapse sectionFour—  Robin Hood:  From Roosevelt to Reagan
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 collapse sectionFive—  "Once More, from the Top":  Musicals the Second Time Around
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 collapse sectionSix—  The Ethnic Oedipus: The Jazz Singer and Its Remakes
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 collapse sectionSeven—  Raiders of the Lost Text:  Remaking as Contested Homage in Always
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 collapse sectionEight—  Double Takes:  The Role of Allusion in Cinema
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 collapse sectionPART TWO—  DISTANT RELATIVES:  CROSS-CULTURAL REMAKES
 collapse sectionNine—  The French Remark: Breathless and Cinematic Citationality
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 Ten—  The Spring, Defiled:  Ingmar Bergman's Virgin Spring and Wes Craven's Last House on the Left
 collapse sectionEleven—  Cinematic Makeovers and Cultural Border Crossings:  Kusturica's Time of the Gypsies and Coppola's Godfather and Godfather II
 Making over Narrative:  Family Business
 collapse sectionMaking over Coppola's Godfathers
 Style:  Gothic Realism vs Magic Realism
 Cinematic Tone:  The Tragic vs the Joyfully Comic
 Kusturica's Salute to World Cinema in an Age of Television
 The Yugoslav Film Connection
 Making over One's Own Career:  Cross My Gypsy Heart
 collapse sectionMaking over Culture:  Four Levels
 Making Over Theme:  The Stolid vs the Impermanent
 Making over Patriarchs into Matriarchs
 Fatherly Blessings Given and Absent
 Catholicism vs the Orthodox Faith
 Stolen Coins:  Crossing All Borders
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 collapse sectionTwelve—  Made in Hong Kong:  Translation and Transmutation
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 collapse sectionThirteen—  Modernity and Postmaternity: High Heels and Imitation of Life
 Remaking a Remake
 A Postmodern Simulacrum
 "Sign Crimes against the Big Signifier of Sex"
 Polymorphous Perverse
 Postmaternity
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 collapse sectionFourteen—  Feminist Makeovers:  The Celluloid Surgery of Valie Export and Su Friedrich
 Of Clones and Men:  Invasion of The Body Snatchers and Invisible Adversaries
 Much Ado about Nun-Things: Black Narcissus and Damned If You Don't
 In Stitches:  Cutting up As Serious Business
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 collapse sectionFifteen— Nosferatu , or the Phantom of the Cinema
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 collapse sectionSixteen—  How Many Draculas Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?
 The Dead and Undead
 Political Oppressor and Victimizer
 The Anti-Christ and Anti-God
 The Unconsciously Desired
 The Oedipal Father
 The Preoedipal Mother
 The Beast That Once We were
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 collapse sectionPART THREE—  ALTERED STATES:  TRANSFORMING MEDIA
 collapse sectionSeventeen—  The Superhero with a Thousand Faces:  Visual Narratives on Film and Paper
 Cinema and the Comics:  Two Visual Languages
 Adaptations High and Low
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 collapse sectionEighteen—  "Tonight Your Director Is John Ford":  The Strange Journey of Stagecoach from Screen to Radio
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 collapse sectionNineteen—  M*A*S*H Notes
 Network Policy
 Genre Expectations
 Popularity
 Writers and Creative Personnel
 Subject Material
 Influence of the Actors
 Replacement of Cast Members
 Changes in the Political Climate
 Iconization of the Characters
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 Afterword:  Rethinking Remakes

 collapse sectionNotes
 INTRODUCTION
 One— Remakes and Cultural Studies
 Two— Algebraic Figures: Recalculating the Hitchcock Formula
 Three— The Director Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock Remakes Himself
 Four— Robin Hood: From Roosevelt to Reagan
 Five— "Once More, from the Top": Musicals the Second Time Around
 Six— The Ethnic Oedipus:The Jazz Singer and Its Remakes
 Seven— Raiders of the Lost Text: Remaking as Contested Homage in Always
 Eight— Double Takes: The Role of Allusion in Cinema
 Nine— The French Remark:Breathless and Cinematic Citationality
 Ten— The Spring, Defiled: Ingmar Bergman's Virgin Spring and Wes Craven's Last House on the Left
 Eleven— Cinematic Makeovers and Cultural Border Crossings: Kusturica's Time of the Gypsies and Coppola's Godfather and Godfather II
 Thirteen— Modernity and Postmaternity:High Heels and Imitation of Life
 Fourteen— Feminist Makeovers: The Celluloid Surgery of Valie Export and Su Friedrich
 Fifteen—Nosferatu , or the Phantom of the Cinema
 Sixteen— How Many Draculas Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?
 Seventeen— The Superhero with a Thousand Faces: Visual Narratives on Film and Paper
 Eighteen— "Tonight Your Director Is John Ford": The Strange Journey of Stagecoach from Screen to Radio
 Afterword: Rethinking Remakes
  NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  CREDITS
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