Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: The Remake Paradox

   1. Introduction: The Remake Paradox

      • Daniel Varndell

      Pages 1-6

3. The Problem of Choice

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Shot for Shot Remakes

      • Daniel Varndell

      Pages 9-32

   3. Transnational Remaking

      • Daniel Varndell

      Pages 33-57

4. The Problem of Distance

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The Vicious Circles of Postmodern Representations

      • Daniel Varndell

      Pages 61-88

   3. Remake Series and the “Case” of Film Noir

      • Daniel Varndell

      Pages 89-117

5. The Problem of the Exception

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   2. The Other Side of Remakes

      • Daniel Varndell

      Pages 121-147

   3. The Grandfather Paradox

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6. Conclusion: Encore Deleuze

   1. Conclusion: Encore Deleuze

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      Pages 176-180

7. Back Matter

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Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox explores the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze using the framework of Hollywood's current obsession with remaking and rebooting classic and foreign films. Through an analysis of cinematic repetition and difference, the book approaches remakes from a range of philosophical perspectives.

• Remake
• Paradox
• Hollywood
• film philosophy
• Deleuze
• Guattari
• schizoanalysis
• Lacan
• psychoanalysis
• Oedipus
• Nietzsche
• Kierkegaard
• Hitchcock
• Psycho
• Anthony Perkins
• Slasher genre
• sequels
• prequel
• shot for shot remake
• transnational remake
• cinema
• film
• philosophy

“Daniel Varndell’s Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox is an innovative book that gets past the usual argument that the original film is the best version and the remake an ill-made copy. … Varndell’s book is a mandatory text for those interested in remakes and Deleuzian film-philosophy. … With Hollywood’s film industry turned into a constant remake production machine, Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox certainly provides a solid framework through which we can understand its implications.” (María Victoria Gomez Vila, Film-Philosophy, Vol. 21 (1), 2017)

"Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox re-makes Deleuze in order to re-think cinematic re-makes. It is a strikingly original piece of work about the paradoxes of the apparent unoriginality of re-makes. It is at once an elegant repudiation of a number of bad readings of Deleuze (particularly by Badiou and Zizek) and a vitally fresh contribution to the field of cinema studies." - Ian Buchanan, Editor, Deleuze Studies

Daniel Varndell is an independent scholar who teaches cultural and critical theory in English and Film Studies. This is his first book, and it marks the culmination of a long period of research on the subject of repetition and difference in Hollywood cinema. It will be complemented by a shorter, companion piece of work on David Lynch and Deleuze's figure of the 'dark precursor'.

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