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Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguise
Anat Zanger
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Paperback. The first book-length account of the symbolic chains that link remakes such as Psycho and Carmen and explain their disguises Series: Film Culture in Transition. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrated. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 10. Weight in Grams: 320.
The first book-length account of the symbolic chains that link remakes and explain their disguises, Film Remakes as Rituals and Disguise is also the first book to explore how and why these stories are told. Anat Zanger focuses on contemporary retellings of three particular tales-Joan of Arc, Carmen, and Psycho-to reveal what she calls the remake's -rituals of disguise.� Joan of Arc, Zanger demonstrates, later appears as the tough, androgynous Ripley in the blockbuster Alien III film and the God-ridden Bess in Lars Von Trier's Breaking the Waves. Ultimately, these remake chains offer evidence of the archetypes of our own ... Read more
The first book-length account of the symbolic chains that link remakes and explain their disguises, Film Remakes as Rituals and Disguise is also the first book to explore how and why these stories are told. Anat Zanger focuses on contemporary retellings of three particular tales-Joan of Arc, Carmen, and Psycho-to reveal what she calls the remake's -rituals of disguise.� Joan of Arc, Zanger demonstrates, later appears as the tough, androgynous Ripley in the blockbuster Alien III film and the God-ridden Bess in Lars Von Trier's Breaking the Waves. Ultimately, these remake chains offer evidence of the archetypes of our own ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press Netherlands
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Series
Film Culture in Transition
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN
9789053567845
SKU
V9789053567845
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About Anat Zanger
Anat Zanger is associate professor (=Senior Lecturer ) at the Film & Television Department, Tel Aviv University.
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