Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Tables vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Introduction: Film Reboots 1
6. Contributors 1
7. Part I Industry and Commerce
8. 1 Rethinking the ‘Supersystem’: Film Reboots and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 19
9. 2 Live Long and Prosper: Rebooting Star Trek and Reimagining Fandom 33
10. 3 The Many Reboots of the Batman 47
11. Part II Structure and Narrative
12. 4 The Edge of Reality: Replicating Blade Runner 65
13. 5 Gender, Genre and the Reboot: From Ocean’s 11/Eleven to Ocean’s 8/Eight 81
14. 6 Understanding Twin Peaks: The Return as a ‘Film Reboot’ via Anti-Franchise Discourses Within Media Franchising 97
15. 7 All This Has Happened Before: Mythic Repetition in the Film-to-Television Reboot 111
16. Part III Politics and Identity
17. 8 Resistance and Empire: Star Wars and the Social Justice Reboot 127
18. 9 Rebooting the Politics of the Sports Melodrama: Creed vs Rocky 143
19. 10 Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot 157
20. Part IV Fans and Audiences
21. 11 Reboot, Requel, Legacyquel: Jurassic World and the Nostalgia Franchise 173
22. 12 World-building, Retconning and Legacy Rebooting: Alien and Contemporary Media Franchise Strategies 189
23. 13 Anticipating the Reboot: Teasing Top Gun 2 205
24. 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 219
25. Index 233