List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
1. Reviewing Remakes: An Introduction
Jennifer Forrest and Leonard R. Koos
2. Twice Told Tales: Disavowal and the Rhetoric of the Film Remake
Thomas Michael Leitch
3. Economy and Aesthetics in American Remakes of French Films
Michael Harney
4. The Personal Touch: The Original, the Remake, and the Dupe in Early China
Jennifer Forrest
5. Sound Strategies: Lang's Rearticulation of Renoir
Tricia Welsch
6. The Raven and the Nanny: The Remake as Crosscultural Encounter
Alan Williams
7. Sadie Thompson Redux: Postwar Reintegration of the Wartime Wayward Woman
Jennifer Forrest
8. Hiring Practices: Simenon/Duvivier/Leconte
Leonard R. Koos
9. Twice Two: The Fly and Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Marty Roth
10. Three Takes on Motherhood, Masculinity, and Marriage: Serreau's Trois hommes et un couffin, Nimoy's Remakes, and Ardolino's Sequel
Carolyn Ann Durham
11. Pretty Woman With a Gun: La Femme Nikita, Point of No Return, and the Textual Politics of the Remake
Laura Grindstaff
Appendix A
Remaking Le Voile bleu: An Interview with Norman Corwin, Screenwriter for The Blue Veil
Jennifer Forrest
Appendix B
Letter from Norman Corwin to Jerry Wald
Index