Instead of the real thing: Six ways to talk about what Hollywood does to European films
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Thomas Leitch
Abstract
This essay reviews five different ways in which commentators have described what Hollywood does in remaking European films which audiences frequently regard as having a uniquely intimate connection with their European subjects: Hollywoodizing, Americanizing, Europeanizing, appropriating, and reframing them. After considering the relations among these terms, the problems raised by each of them, and their respective limitations, it proposes a sixth term, scripting, which it argues is less parochial, invidious, or value-laden than any of the others, and more likely to invite further productive dialogue on the subject of remakes that cross cultural borders.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Titelseiten
- Special Issue: Current trends in remaking European screen cultures
- Editorial
- Editorial: Current trends in remaking European screen cultures
- Articles
- Local flavors and regional markers: The Low Countries and their commercially driven and proximity-focused film remake practice
- Manufacturing proximity through film remakes: Remake rights representatives and the case of local-language comedy remakes
- Babylon Berlin: Pastiching Weimar cinema
- Remaking Winnetou, reconfiguring German fantasies of Indianer and the Wild West in the Post-Reunification Era
- Instead of the real thing: Six ways to talk about what Hollywood does to European films
- Book Reviews
- Meir, C. (2019). Mass producing European cinema: Studiocanal and its works. New York, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 272 pp.
- Evens, T., & Donders, K. (2018). Platform power and policy in transforming television markets. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 304 pp.
