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Transnational Networks of Film Repetitions: Zooming Between Franchising and Intertextuality (84078)
Session Chair: Roman Kusaiko
Wednesday, 30 October 2024 13:45
Session: Session 1
Room: Room 110
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
The evolving landscape of transnational productions, franchises and various forms of film repetitions and variations has significantly complicated our understanding of film remaking as a textual, industrial and critical category and the structural forms they create. Traditionally, film remakes have been analyzed through their relations and fidelity with the source film, contextual, sociopolitical and cultural transnational dynamics they engender, franchise building, or through the broader lens of intertextuality with the other intra- and intermedia titles. However, these approaches are often limited to the duality of source-target dichotomy and an emphasis on the commercial nature of film reiterations. This paper contributes to the existing scholarship by offering a better understanding of transnational remaking systems in East Asia, especially in the contemporary creative intermedia landscape. It prioritizes the connections between the new reiterations within the remaking title systems. Consequently, the concept of "transnational networks of film repetitions” is proposed, arguing that a less generalized and non-commercially anchored approach is possible when analyzing the dynamic intertextual processes, limited by similar generic qualities. To properly illustrate the necessity of the proposed concept and its theoretical and practical value, the paper appeals to the remaking systems on Sidney Lumet's 12 Angry Men, Alan Mak's and Andrew Lau's Infernal Affairs and Takashi Shimizu's Ju-on. The paper will apply the structural approach to illustrate the development of the title systems through their principal remaking qualities, which will be succeeded by the case studies of the most recent remakes from each of the proposed title systems.
Authors:
Roman Kusaiko, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
About the Presenter(s)
Mr Roman Kusaiko is a University Doctoral Student at Lingnan University in Hong Kong
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