Remake Television

Carlen Lavigne holds a Ph.D. in communications studies and teaches at Red Deer College in Alberta, Canada. She is the co-editor of American Remakes of British Television: Transformations and Mistranslations and the author of Cyberpunk Women, Feminism and Science Fiction: A Critical Study.

Remake Television: Reboot, Re-use, Recycle examines multiple definitions of television remakes, from reboots to adaptations and sequels. It addresses cross-cultural issues while also interrogating the changing contexts and challenges posed by generational and media format shifts.

Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionCarlen LavignePart I: Debates and Definitions1.Interrogating The Walking Dead: Adaptation, Transmediality, and the Zombie Matrix William Proctor2.A Remake by Any Other Name: Use of a Premise Under a New TitleSteven Gil3.The Nostalgic Revolution Will Be TelevisedRyan Lizardi4.Multiverses and Multiversions: Meditations on the Rebootings of FringeHeather Marcovitch5.Look¿(Stop Me If Yoüve Read This One) But There Were These Two Spies: The Avengers Through the Swinging 60sJames W. MartensPart II: Remakes and the American Cultural Moment6.Once Upon A Time in the 21st Century: Beauty and the Beast as Post-9/11 FairytaleCarlen Lavigne7.Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Romney Lost: Politics, Football, and Friday Night LightsMatthew Paproth8.¿These Aren¿t Your Mother¿s Angels¿: Feminism, Jiggle Television and Charlie¿s AngelsCristina Lucia StasiaPart III: Exploring the Remake9.Forbrydelsen, The Killing, Duty, and EthicsKaren Hellekson10.¿I Was Hoping It Would Pass You By¿: Dis/ability and Difference in Teen WolfKimberley McMahon-Coleman11.That Haunting, Eerie Return: Narrative, Genre, and Iconography in Dark Shadows and Dark Shadows: The RevivalLorna Piatti-Farnell12.Smart, Sexy, and Technologically Savvy: (Re)Making Sherlock Holmes as a 21st-Century SuperstarLynnette Porter13.Remaking Public Service for Commercial Consumption: Jamie¿s School Dinners Comes to AmericaHelen Thornham and Elke Weissmann14.Who are we? Re-Envisioning the Doctor in the 21st CenturyPaul Booth and Jef Burnham15.¿More Village¿: Redeveloping The PrisonerPeter ClandfieldContributorsIndex