Film reboots / edited by Daniel Herbert and Constantine Verevis.
| Other author | Herbert, Daniel, 1974- editor. |
| Other author | Verevis, Constantine, editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020] |
| Copyright Date | ©2020 |
| Description | 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) : illustrations. |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | Screen serialities Screen serialities. ^A1435462 |
| Contents | Rethinking the 'supersystem': film reboots and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / Daniel Herbert -- Live long and prosper: rebooting Star Trek and reimagining fandom / Erin Hanna -- The many reboots of the Batman / Eileen R. Meehan -- The edge of reality: replicating Blade Runner / Constantine Verevis -- Gender, genre and the reboot: from Ocean's 11/Eleven to Ocean's 8/Eight / Jennifer Forrest -- Understanding Twin Peaks: the return as a 'film reboot' via anti-franchise discourses within media franchising / Matt Hills -- All this has happened before: mythic repetition in the film-to-television reboot / Nicholas Benson and Jonathan Gray -- Resistance and empire: Star Wars and the social justice reboot / Derek Johnson-- Rebooting the politics of the sports melodrama: Creed vs Rocky / Chuck Tryon -- Ghost girls: ghostbusters, popular feminism and the gender-swap reboot / Claire Perkins -- Reboot, requel, legacyquel: Jurassic World and the nostalgia franchise / Kathleen Loock -- World-building, retconning and legacy rebooting: alien and contemporary media franchise strategies / James Fleury -- Anticipating the reboot: teasing Top Gun 2 / Paul Grainge -- A dark knight on Elm Street: discursive regimes of (sub)cultural value, paratextual bonding, and the perils of remaking and rebooting canonical horror cinema / William Proctor |
| Abstract | Through a set of vibrant case studies, this collection investigates rebooting as a practice that seeks to remake an entire film series or franchise, with ambitions that are at once respectful and revisionary. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record |
| Issued in other form | Print version: 1474451365 9781474451369 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 9781474451383 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 1474451381 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 9781474451390 (epub) |
| ISBN | 147445139X (epub) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| Stock number | 22573/ctv17707vf JSTOR |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |