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Remake Television: Reboot, Re-Use, Recycle

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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.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
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.

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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. 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. 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.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780739183342
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 363
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0739183346
  • Publisher Date: 27 Feb 2014
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Reboot, Re-Use, Recycle


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