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Pages: 240, Paperback, Duke University Press Books

The remake is a prominent feature of contemporary Hollywood production, a high proportion of which originate in French films. Encore Hollywood considers the effect of the remake on the construction of a national cultural identity. Lucy Mazdon examines key remakes of French films in Hollywood over the past 20 years, highlighting the increased importance of culture in political discourse of the 1980s as a fundamental reason for the negative reception of remakes in France.

Each letter was thirty feet wide, fifty feet tall and adorned by 4000 light bulbs. The sign was erected facing south on the hillside and officially dedicated on July 13, 1923. The Crescent Sign Company did not intend for the letters to be a permanent fixture on top of the hillside but after the rise of the American cinema in Los Angeles the Hollywood sign became an international symbol and was left overlooking Hollywood. During the 1940's the sign became dilapidated and rundown and the unsightly...

No fewer than seven hundred Civil War films have been made by Hollywood from early silent days to the present, from the epoch-making Birth of a Nation, through The Red Badge of Courage and Gone With the Wind to the recent Glory, Ride with the Devil and Cold Mountain. This readable and innovative book on the American Civil War as presented in Hollywood cinema goes deep into the best of these films, arguing that rather than belonging to a single genre, Civil War films are to be found across genres...