Film reboots

Edinburgh University Press

2020

XI, 244 p.

Screen serialities

9781474451369

Rethinking the 'supersystem': film reboots and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / Daniel Herbert --Live long and prosper: rebooting Star Trek and reimagining fandom / Erin Hanna --The many reboots of the Batman / Eileen R. Meehan --The edge of reality: replicating Blade Runner / Constantine Verevis --Gender, genre and the reboot: from Ocean's 11/Eleven to Ocean's 8/Eight / Jennifer Forrest --Understanding Twin Peaks: the return as a 'film reboot' via anti-franchise discourses within media franchising / Matt Hills --All this has happened before: mythic repetition in the film-to-television reboot / Nicholas Benson and Jonathan Gray --Resistance and empire: Star Wars and the social justice reboot / Derek Johnson--Rebooting the politics of the sports melodrama: Creed vs Rocky / Chuck Tryon --Ghost girls: ghostbusters, popular feminism and the gender-swap reboot / Claire Perkins --Reboot, requel, legacyquel: Jurassic World and the nostalgia franchise / Kathleen Loock --World-building, retconning and legacy rebooting: alien and contemporary media franchise strategies / James Fleury --Anticipating the reboot: teasing Top Gun 2 / Paul Grainge --A dark knight on Elm Street: discursive regimes of (sub)cultural value, paratextual bonding, and the perils of remaking and rebooting canonical horror cinema / William Proctor

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