Film Reboots. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Daniel Herbert, Constantine Verevis.
• Editors: Herbert, Daniel; Verevis, Constantine
• Contents: Introduction: Film Reboots, Daniel Herbert and Constantine Verevis; PART I: INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE; 1: Rethinking the 'Supersystem': Film Reboots and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Daniel Herbert; 2: Live Long and Prosper: Rebooting Star Trek and Reimagining Fandom, Erin Hanna; 3: The Many Reboots of the Batman, Eileen R. Meehan; PART II: STRUCTURE AND NARRATIVE; 4: The Edge of Reality: Replicating Blade Runner, Constantine Verevis; 5: Gender, Genre and the Reboot: From Ocean's 11/Eleven to Ocean's 8/Eight, Jennifer Forrest; 6: Understanding Twin Peaks: The Return as a 'Film Reboot' via Anti-Franchise Discourses Within Media Franchising, Matt Hills; 7: All This Has Happened Before: Mythic Repetition in the Film-to-Television Reboot, Nicholas Benson & Jonathan Gray; PART III: POLITICS AND IDENTITY; 8: Resistance and Empire: Star Wars and the Social Justice Reboot, Derek Johnson; 9: Rebooting the Politics of the Sports Melodrama: Creed vs. Rocky, Chuck Tryon; 10: Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot, Claire Perkins; PART IV: FANS AND AUDIENCES; 11: Reboot, Requel, Legacyquel: Jurassic World and the Nostalgia Franchise, Kathleen Loock; 12: Worldbuilding, Retconning, and Legacy Rebooting: Alien and Contemporary Media Franchise Strategies, James Fleury; 13: Anticipating the Reboot: Teasing Top Gun 2, Paul Grainge; 14: 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; Contributors; Notes.
• Publisher Details: United Kingdom : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474451390
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