Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Reviewing Remakes: An Introduction 1
6. Twice-Told Tales: Disavowal and the Rhetoric of the Remake 37
7. Economy and Aesthetics in American Remakes of French Films 63
8. The “Personal” Touch: The Original, the Remake, and the Dupe in Early Cinema 89
9. Sound Strategies: Lang’s Rearticulation of Renoir 127
10. The Raven and the Nanny: The Remake as Crosscultural Encounter 151
11. Sadie Thompson Redux: Postwar Reintegration of the Wartime Wayward Woman 169
12. Hiring Practices: Simenon/Duvivier/Leconte 203
13. Twice Two: The Fly and Invasion of the Body Snatchers 225
14. Three Takes On Motherhood, Masculinity, and Marriage: Serreau’s Trois Hommes et un couffin, Nimoy’s Remake, and Ardolino’s Sequel 243
15. Pretty Woman with a Gun: La Femme Nikita and the Textual Politics of “The Remake” 273
16. Remaking Le Voile bleu: An Interview with Norman Corwin, Screenwriter for The Blue Veil 309
17. Norman Corwin Letter to Jerry Wald 337
18. Contributors 341
19. Film Title Index 343
20. Name and Subject Index 353