Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 2. The Kissing Cycle, Mashers, and (White) Women in the American City 22
6. Chapter 3. Descended from Hercules: Masculine Anxiety in the Peplum 41
7. Chapter 4. The American Postwar Semidocumentary Cycle: Factual Dramatizations 60
8. Chapter 5. Cycle Consciousness and the White Audience in Black Film Writing: The 1949–1950 “Race Problem” Cycle and the African American Press 80
9. Chapter 6. Vicious Cycle: Jaws and Revenge-of-Nature Films of the 1970s 96
10. Chapter 7. Familiar Otherness: On the Contemporary Cross-Cultural Remake 112
11. Chapter 8. Anime’s Dangerous Innocents: Millennial Anxieties, Gender Crises, and the Shojo Body as a Weapon 130
12. Chapter 9. It’s Only a Film, Isn’t It? Policy Paranoia Thrillers of the War on Terror 148
13. Chapter 10. Doing Dumbledore: Actor-Character Bonding and Accretionary Performance 166
14. Chapter 11. A Lagosian Lady Gaga: Cross-Cultural Identifi cation in Nollywood’s Anti-Biopic Cycle 184
15. Chapter 12. Re-solving Crimes: A Cycle of TV Detective Partnerships 202
16. Chapter 13. Smart TV: Showtime’s “Bad Mommies” Cycle 222
17. Chapter 14. My Generation(s): Cycles, Branding, and Renewal in E4’s Skins 240
18. Chapter 15. Extended Attractions: Recut Trailers, Film Promotion, and Audience Desire 260
19. Chapter 16. Retro-Remaking: The 1980s Film Cycle in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema 277
20. Chapter 17. I Can’t Lead This Vacation Anymore: Mumblecore’s American Man 299
21. Chapter 18. Serialized Killers: Prebooting Horror in Bates Motel and Hannibal 316
22. List of Contributors 335
23. Index 339