The Hollywood Meme: Transnational Adaptations in World Cinema - Hardcover

Smith, Iain Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748677461 ISBN 13: 9780748677467

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Did you know that a Turkish remake of The Exorcist replaced the Catholicism with Islam? Or that James Bond and Batman team up together in the 1966 Filipino film James Batman? Or that a Bollywood remake of Memento has become one of the biggest box-office successes in India of all time?

The Hollywood Meme is the first comprehensive study of the transnational adaptations of Hollywood movies that have appeared throughout world cinema. With case studies from the film industries of Turkey, India and the Philippines, Iain Robert Smith shows how reworked versions of Hollywood blockbusters like E.T., The Godfather, Spider-man and Star Wars can complicate prevailing accounts of Hollywood's global impact, and help provide a new model for interrogating transnational flows and exchanges.

About this title

About the Author:

Iain Robert Smith is Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College London. He is co-editor of Transnational Film Remakes and Media Across Borders, co-chair of the SCMS Transnational Cinemas Scholarly Interest Group, and co-investigator on the AHRC-funded research network Media Across Borders.

Review:

"An interesting read for academics working in (popular) genre studies, studies of transnational adaptations and remake studies, as well as for people who want to know more about the Bollywood remake of 'Memento', or the teaming up of James Bond and Batman in the Filipino 'James Batman'". -- Eduard Cuelenaere, Ghent University, Communications

"Smith's histories should provide ample inspiration for new theoretical and national border and boundary crossings, and for new forms of creative and hybrid thinking. Like any exemplary franchise instalment, Smith's book works just as well in anticipation as it does in execution, hopefully with more histories, more sequels, more spinoffs, and more extensions coming soon."-- Kyle Meikle, SCREEN

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0748677461
• ISBN 13: 9780748677467
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192