TY  - BOOK
AU  - Herbert,Daniel
AU  - Benson,Nicholas
AU  - Fleury,James
AU  - Forrest,Jennifer
AU  - Grainge,Paul
AU  - Gray,Jonathan
AU  - Hanna,Erin
AU  - Herbert,Daniel
AU  - Hills,Matt
AU  - Johnson,Derek
AU  - Loock,Kathleen
AU  - Meehan,Eileen
AU  - Perkins,Claire
AU  - Proctor,William
AU  - Tryon,Chuck
AU  - Verevis,Constantine
TI  - Film Reboots
T2  - Screen Serialities : SCSE
SN  - 9781474451369
U1  - 791.436 
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Film remakes
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Film remakes-History and criticism
KW  - Film sequels
KW  - Film, Media & Cultural Studies
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures and Tables --; Notes on Contributors --; Introduction: Film Reboots --; Contributors --; Part I Industry and Commerce --; 1 Rethinking the ‘Supersystem’: Film Reboots and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles --; 2 Live Long and Prosper: Rebooting Star Trek and Reimagining Fandom --; 3 The Many Reboots of the Batman --; Part II Structure and Narrative --; 4 The Edge of Reality: Replicating Blade Runner --; 5 Gender, Genre and the Reboot: From Ocean’s 11/Eleven to Ocean’s 8/Eight --; 6 Understanding Twin Peaks: The Return as a ‘Film Reboot’ via Anti-Franchise Discourses Within Media Franchising --; 7 All This Has Happened Before: Mythic Repetition in the Film-to-Television Reboot --; Part III Politics and Identity --; 8 Resistance and Empire: Star Wars and the Social Justice Reboot --; 9 Rebooting the Politics of the Sports Melodrama: Creed vs Rocky --; 10 Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot --; Part IV Fans and Audiences --; 11 Reboot, Requel, Legacyquel: Jurassic World and the Nostalgia Franchise --; 12 World-building, Retconning and Legacy Rebooting: Alien and Contemporary Media Franchise Strategies --; 13 Anticipating the Reboot: Teasing Top Gun 2 --; 14 A Dark Knight on Elm Street: Discursive Regimes of (Sub)Cultural Value, Paratextual Bonding, and the Perils of Remaking and Rebooting Canonical Horror Cinema --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The first edited collection with a specific focus on the new millennial phenomenon of rebootingProvides extended case studies of key rebooted films and franchisesInterrogates the film reboot as an industrial, textual and discursive categoryConsiders the reboot in relation to other formatting practices: remakes, sequels, prequels, series and franchisesSituates film reboots in relation to larger political and social realities, including issues of gender and raceBrings together the research of key scholars working internationally in the field of media seriality to provide insights to the category of the rebootBringing together the latest developments in the study of serial formatting practices – remakes, sequels, series – Film Reboots is the first edited collection to specifically focus on the new millennial phenomenon of rebooting. Through a set of vibrant case studies, this collection investigates rebooting as a practice that seeks to remake an entire film series or franchise, with ambitions that are at once respectful and revisionary. Examining such notable examples as Batman, Ghostbusters, and Star Trek, among others, this collection contends with some of the most important features of contemporary film and media culture today
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474451383
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474451383
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474451383/original
ER  -