Contents

Introduction. Remakes and Remaking – Preliminary Reflections

I. Intra-medial Intracultural Remaking

The Remade Prequel – Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

Exit Gender, Enter Race. Jonathan Demme’s “Update” of The Manchurian Candidate

(Re)Making Men in the 1950s and 2000s. Delmer Daves’s and James Mangold’s 3:10 to Yuma

II. Intra-medial Transcultural Remaking

Hollywood Remade. New Approaches to Indian Remakes of Western Films

Hellish Departure? The Departed, Infernal Affairs and Globalized Film Cultures

III. Inter-medial Remaking

The Remake as Re-adaptation of an English Classic. Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist on Film

Romeo and Juliet Re-danced. Choreographic Remakings of Shakespeare’s Tragedy

“Yes, Avatar is Dances with Wolves in space . . . sorta”. Repetitions and Shades of Difference in Two Blockbusters

On the Ethics and Aesthetics of ‘Remaking’ in Web 2.0 Environments

List of Contributors