Providing a typology of the various motives that move those in the industry to expend their energies in a form of repetition, Rosewarne’s Why We Remake helps explain the appeal to filmmakers and filmgoers alike of new versions of something old, usefully identifying their – Professor Anne Duggan, Wayne State University, author of Queer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy Lauren Rosewarne’s latest study of cinema remakes offers a fresh, compelling perspective on remaking, among film study’s most relevant areas of research. In the end, Why We Remake asks us to question our own presuppositions about what a remake is and does. Throughout her study Rosewarne emphasizes the extent to which remakes are indeed adaptations that allow creators to incorporate the most recent cinematographic technologies and address contemporary social, cultural, and political concerns through the lens of familiar storylines.
Drawing from a wealth of film reviews and studies, she adeptly problematizes the prejudices towards remakes and foregrounds the financial and artistic stakes in producing them. – Professor Ian Hunter, De Montfort University, author of Cult Film as a Guide to Life: Fandom, Adaptation, and Identity Lauren Rosewarne’s illuminating book challenges conventional wisdom about remakes in general and American remakes in particular. Why We Remake is a must read for all students of adaptation. With examples from silent cinema to Bollywood and comic book franchises, Lauren Rosewarne expertly analyses different kinds of remake (upgrades, nostalgic homages, fashionable reboots) and shows that, in spite of critical disdain, remakes have been central to film history.
With cinema seemingly ever more obsessed with recycling itself, this is a timely as well as exuberant, learned and massively detailed exploration of that least prestigious form of adaptation – the movie remake.
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