Awards

• Winner of Janovics Center for Film and Performing arts Awards 2023: Best Monograph or Edited Collection 2023

Overview

This is the first book-length study to address film remaking from a unique perspective of a cross-cultural exchange between two countries which not only share a language but also a history of film cooperation. It examines a selection of cult and classic British titles made at the time of Hollywood's active involvement in the domestic film production, with case studies from a number of genres. The book investigates the ways in which these '60s and early '70s films are remade by Hollywood in the new millennium by focusing in particular on how class and gender representations are updated to accommodate for cultural, societal and technological transformations. It shows a tendency for remakes to revise old power dynamics by means of gender reversal and to replace class conflicts with sex wars. Since all the British originals feature iconic British actors, analysing their Hollywood alter-egos becomes another important indicator of adaptation strategies where casting American or British actors determines the remake's gender politics and genre markers.

Full Product Details

9781474448789

Table of Contents

Reviews

"Via the prism of class and gender, the book analyses a number of British films of the 1960s and 70s and their American remakes of the early 2000s. Rasmus provides an insightful and persuasive contribution to the now well established field of remake studies while also shedding new light on the relationship between British cinema and Hollywood.--Lucy Mazdon, Oxford Brookes University In her well-researched analysis of Hollywood reworkings of iconic British films, Agnieszka Rasmus recounts a fascinating cultural and industrial history of British and American filmmaking, while providing engaging readings of transnational film pairs from the 1960s into the early 21st century. Referencing social movements and subcultures, such as Swinging London and Lad culture, and focusing on class, gender, genre, and star casting, Rasmus tells the intriguing transcultural story of ""Hollywood England"" and its ""swings"" and shifts through remakes across the decades.--Julie Grossman, Le Moyne College"

Author Information

Agnieszka Rasmus is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies in Drama, Theatre and Film, University of Łódź, Poland. She is the author of Filming Shakespeare, from Metatheatre to Metacinema (2008) and numerous articles on film remakes and adaptations.

Tab Content 6

Countries Available