9. The French Remark: Breathless and Cinematic Citationality

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATION S AN D TABLE VII
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE Next of Kin: Remakes and Hollywood
6. 1. Remakes and Cultural Studies 13
7. 2. Algebraic Figures: Recalculating the Hitchcock Formula 34
8. 3. The Director Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock Remakes Himsel 52
9. 4. Robin Hood: From Roosevelt to Reagan 70
10. 5. "Once More, from the Top": Musicals the Second Time Around 80
11. 6. The Ethnic Oedipus: The Jazz Singer and Its Remakes 95
12. 7. Raiders of the Lost Text: Remaking as Contested Homage in Always 115
13. 8. Double Takes: The Role of Allusion in Cinema 131
14. PART TWO Distant Relatives: Cross-Cultural Remakes
15. 9. The French Remark: Breathless and Cinematic Citationality 145
16. 10. The Spring, Defiled: Ingmar Bergman's Virgin Spring and Wes Craven's Last House on the Left 162
17. 11. Cinematic Makeovers and Cultural Border Crossings: Kusturica's Time of the Gypsies and Coppola's Godfather and Godfather II 172
18. 12. Made in Hong Kong: Translation and Transmutation 191
19. 13. Modernity and Postmaternity: High Heels and Imitation of Life 200
20. 14. Feminist Makeovers: The Celluloid Surgery of Valie Export and Su Friedrich 217
21. 15. Nosferatu, or the Phantom of the Cinema 238
22. 16. How Many Draculas Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb? 250
23. PART THREE Altered States: Transforming Media
24. 17. The Superhero with a Thousand Faces: Visual Narratives on Film and Paper 277
25. 18. "Tonight Your Director Is John Ford": The Strange Journey of Stagecoach from Screen to Radio 295
26. 19. M*A *S*H Notes 310
27. Afterword: Rethinking Remakes 327
28. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 335
29. CREDITS 339
30. INDEX 341