Dead Ringers

Dead RingersAddresses the important role of remakes in film culture, from early cinema to contemporary Hollywood. While the popular press has criticized movie remakes as signs of Hollywood's collective lack of imagination, the essays in Dead Ringers reveal the centrality and staying power of remakes as a formative genre in filmmaking. The contributors show that the practice of remaking films dates back to the origins of cinema and the evolution of film markets.

his passion for the written word draws him into a secret society of book smugglers and into the famed cultural capitals of the period—Baghdad

its causes and its trajectories

a Chinese philosopher who lived in the fourth century BCE

the processes

a vocation

including this entirely original work of fiction inspired by the author’s experience in the Great War

equipment and drugs

One of a handful of texts written in the twilight years of Henry VI's reign

His stories of adventure

health and human services

Aims to rethink ethics and transcendence in light of the phenomenology of empathy and social ontology

More relevant today than ever