Play It Again Sam Retakes On Remakes - UCAL POD

This Title Was Originally Published In 1998.play It Again, Sam Is A Timely Investigation Of A Topic That Until Now Has Received Almost No Critical Attention In Film And Cultural Studies: The Cinematic Remake. As Cinema Enters Its Second Century, More Remakes Are Appearing Than Ever Before, And These Writers Consider The Full Range: Hollywood Films That Have Been Recycled By Hollywood, Such As The Jazz Singer, Cape Fear, And Robin Hood; Foreign Films Including Breathless; And Three Men And A Baby, Which Hollywood Has Reworked For American Audiences; And Foreign Films Based On American Works, Among Them Yugoslav Director Emir Kusturica's Time Of The Gypsies, Which Is A Makeover Of Coppola's Godfather Films. As These Essays Demonstrate, Films Are Remade By Other Films (alfred Hitchcock Went So Far As To Remake His Own The Man Who Knew Too Much) And By Other Media As Well.