11. Remaking Funny Games: Michael Haneke’s Cross-cultural Experiment

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Traditions in World Cinema viii
5. Introduction: Transnational Film Remakes 1
6. PART I GENRES AND TRADITIONS
7. 1. Disrupting the Remake: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 21
8. 2. Fritz Lang Remakes Jean Renoir for Hollywood: Film Noir in Three National Voices 36
9. 3. The Cultural Politics of Remaking Spanish Horror Films in the Twenty-first Century: Quarantine and Come Out and Play 54
10. 4. ‘For the Dead Travel Fast’: The Transnational Afterlives of Dracula 66
11. PART II GENDER AND PERFORMANCE
12. 5. The Chinese Cinematic Remake as Transnational Appeal: Zhang Yimou’s A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop 87
13. 6. Transformation and Glamour in the Cross-Cultural Makeover: Return to Eden, Khoon Bhari Maang and the Avenging Woman in Popular Hindi Cinema 103
14. 7. Translating Cool: Cinematic Exchange between Hong Kong, Hollywood and Bollywood 118
15. 8. Trading Places: Das doppelte Lottchen and The Parent Trap 130
16. PART III AUTEURS AND CRITICS
17. 9. A Tale of Two Balloons: Intercultural Cinema and Transnational Nostalgia in Le voyage du ballon rouge 147
18. 10. ‘Crazed Heat’: Nakahira Ko and the Transnational Self-remake 164
19. 11. Remaking Funny Games: Michael Haneke’s Cross-cultural Experiment 177
20. 12. Reinterpreting Revenge: Authorship, Excess and the Critical Reception of Spike Lee’s Oldboy 195
21. 13. The Transnational Film Remake in the American Press 210
22. Notes on the Contributors 224
23. Index 228