All This Has Happened Before: Mythic Repetition in the Film-to-Television Reboot

Film Reboots ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 111-124
Author(s):  
Nicholas Benson ◽  
Jonathan Gray
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Feature Films

This chapter examines the phenomenon of film-to-television reboots. Noting that television has increasingly become a space for expanding and reinvigorating pre-existing story worlds of feature films, it inquires into the intertextual and narrative strategies that are employed when comparatively limited texts are extended and serialised for television screens. Taking the pilots of television reboots of high-profile feature films – Fargo and The Exorcist – as its case studies, it argues that the strategy of adaptation is to uncover the ‘mythic’ qualities and structures of the source material in order to build their respective televisual narratives upon these foundations. This chapter asserts that the development of the mythic value of these original texts is essential for the film-to-television reboot.

TV antiquity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvie Magerstädt
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Popular Entertainment ◽  
Television History ◽  
Black And White ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Historic Development ◽  
Serial Television

TV antiquity explores representations of ancient Greece and Rome throughout television history. It is the first comprehensive overview of the genre in television. More specifically, the author argues that serial television set in antiquity offers a perspective on the ancient world quite distinct from their cinematic counterparts. The book traces the historic development of fictional representations of antiquity from the staged black-and-white shows of the 1950s and 60s to the most recent digital spectacles. A key argument explored throughout the book is that the structure of serial television (with its focus on intimacy and narrative complexity) is at times better suited to explore the complex mythic and historic plots of antiquity. Therefore, the book consciously focusses on multipart television dramas rather than made-for-TV feature films. This enables the author to explore the specific narrative and aesthetic possibilities of this format. The book features a range of insightful case studies, from the high-profile serials I, Claudius (1976) and Rome (2005-8) to lesser known works like The Caesars (1968) or The Eagle of the Ninth (1976) and popular entertainment shows such as Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995-9) and STARZ Spartacus (2010-3). Each of the case studies also draws out broader issues in the specific decade under consideration. Consequently, the book highlights the creative interplay between television genres and production environments and illustrates how cultural and political events have influenced the representations of antiquity in television.

Beyond Eastern Noir

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Estera Mrozewicz
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Feature Films

This book addresses representations of Russia and neighbouring Eastern Europe in post-1989 Nordic cinemas, investigating their hitherto-overlooked transnational dimension. Departing from the dark stereotypes that characterise the hegemonic narrative defined as ‘Eastern noir’, the author presents Norden’s eastern neighbours as depicted with a rich, though previously neglected in scholarship, cinematic diversity. The book does not deny the existence of Eastern noir or its accuracy. Instead, in a number of in-depth case studies of both popular and niche feature films, documentaries and television dramas, it interrogates and attempts to add nuance to the Nordic audiovisual imagination of Russia and Eastern Europe. Tracing approaches of and beyond the Eastern noir paradigm across cinematic genres, and in relation to changing historical contexts, the author considers how increasingly transnational affinities have led to a reimagining of Norden’s eastern neighbours in contemporary Nordic films. Making the notions of border/boundary and neighbourliness central to the argument, the author explores how the shared geopolitical border is (re)imagined in Nordic films and how these (re)imaginations reflect back on the Nordic subjects.

Crimea and the South China Sea

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthea Roberts
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
South China ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Invisible College ◽  
The South ◽  
Overlapping Communities ◽  
China Sea ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Spheres Of Influence

Although we often hear reference to the “invisible college” of international lawyers, it may be better to understand international lawyers as constituting a “divisible college” whose members hail from different states and regions and often form distinct, though sometimes overlapping, communities with their own understandings and approaches, as well as their own influences and spheres of influence. This chapter draws on two recent high-profile controversies—Crimea’s annexation by, or reunification with, Russia in 2014, and the legality and legitimacy of the award in the South China Sea arbitration in 2016—to explore how the divisible college of international lawyers operates with respect to Chinese, Russian, and Western international lawyers. It looks at the extent to which international lawyers in these case studies operated in their own silos or made an effort to communicate across national and geopolitical divides.

scholarly journals Language variation in source texts and their translations

Target ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Montse Corrius ◽  
Patrick Zabalbeascoa
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Language Variation ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Third Language ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Convergence And Divergence

In addition to the two languages essentially involved in translation, that of the source text (L1) and that of the target text (L2), we propose a third language (L3) to refer to any other language(s) found either or both texts. L3 may appear in the source text (ST) or the target text (TT), actually appearing more frequently in STs in our case studies. We present a range of combinations for the convergence and divergence of L1, L2 and L3, for the case of feature films and their translations using examples from dubbed and subtitled versions of films, but we are hopeful that our tentative conclusions may be relevant to other modalities of translation, audiovisual and otherwise. When L3 appears in an audiovisual ST, we find a variety of solutions whereby L3 is deleted from or adapted to the TT. In the latter case, L3 might be rendered in a number of ways, depending on factors such as the audience’s familiarity with L3, and the possibility that L3 in the ST is an invented language.

Masochistic Nationalism and the Basque Imaginary

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Stone
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
History Of ◽  
Explicit Content ◽  
The Erotic

This chapter investigates the curious absence of erotic content in Basque cinema (Julio Medem’s feature films are the obvious exception), an absence that, the author argues, extends well into the democratic period and therefore cannot be blamed on censorship or catholic repression. This research shows that the explicit content of Basque films often revolves around contexts of torture, revealing a certain fascination with masochist narratives that could be suggestive of nationalist martyrdom. This is explored in his Deleuzian analysis of his two main case studies, Estado de excepción/State of Emergency (dir. Iñaki Núñez, 1977) and Akelarre/Witches’ Sabbath (dir. Pedro Olea, 1984), and of a segment of Medem’s documentary La pelota vasca: la piel contra la piedra/The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone (2003) among many other examples throughout the history of Basque cinema. This noticeable absence of erotic narratives could be part of a revolutionary intent to distance Basque cinema both from the erotic narratives of the Barcelona School and from the destape films associated with Madrid, but also a nationalist commitment to sacrifice individualistic desires and pleasures at the service of more collective aims.

China’s “Cancer Villages”: The Social, Political, and Economic Contexts of Pollution

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Lora-Wainwright
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Polluting Firms ◽  
Politically Active

Chapter 2 examines the emergence of China’s “cancer villages”—village-sized clusters of high cancer incidence—and their significance. It overviews how media accounts discursively shaped their social, political and epistemological nature. It develops a typology of cancer villagers based on a close analysis of a selected number of cases examined in recent qualitative research (Chen et al 2013). These relatively high-profile, politically active cases provide a useful background against which to compare the less visibly active case studies examined in later chapters. They illustrate a broader range of activist practices, but they also show that such strategies are often ineffective. Ultimately, these examples suggest that “cancer villages” are not an epidemiologically uncontested label but rather a cultural, social, economic and political phenomenon. Further, they prove that scientific evidence is not the most important element in gaining redress. Rather, it is socio-economic contexts, the persistence of the local population’s complaints and their ability to threaten social stability which largely determines the ways in which polluting firms and the local government may respond. This point is further supported by the book’s three case studies, in which scientific evidence plays a relatively minor role in villagers’ reckonings about environmental health effects and in their demands for redress.

scholarly journals Intertextuality and Mise en Abyme in Nobuhiro Suwa’s H Story and A Perfect Couple. Between European Modernity and Japan

Arts ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Miguel Muñoz-Garnica
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Alain Resnais ◽  
Mise En Abyme ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Roberto Rossellini

Nobuhiro Suwa, often called “the most French of Japanese directors”, has a complex relationship with European cinematic modernity. His two feature films H Story (2001) and A Perfect Couple (2005) can provide useful case studies, as they were created in dialogue with two key references of that modernity: Hiroshima mon amour (1959, Alain Resnais) and Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia, 1954, Roberto Rossellini), respectively. Both films tend to confront and gloss their previous pairs, but they are also continuations of their concerns and their aesthetical discoveries. The presence of intertextuality elements connecting those films, as well as the use of myse en abyme structures are deeply analyzed in this article to attain a greater understanding on how this process of transcultural dialogue works. Besides, both films exemplify different ways of developing the references on which they are built, namely deconstruction for H Story and reconstruction for A Perfect Couple.

scholarly journals Introduction: Piracy and occasional state power

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 656-665
Author(s):  
John Coakley ◽  
C. Nathan Kwan ◽  
David Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
South China Sea ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
South China ◽  
State Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Universal Jurisdiction ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Alternative Means

States exert their power over maritime predation only occasionally depending on prevalent circumstances. Historically, when states have perceived and attempted to address a problem of piracy, they have encountered severe limits on their abilities to manage private maritime enterprise in waters under their purported control. Despite the popular conception that piracy falls into the legal category of ‘universal jurisdiction’, such jurisdiction has only been employed sporadically. In reality, despite high-profile ‘terror’ campaigns against pirates, states regularly employed alternative means of suppression, including negotiation, legal posturing and co-optation. The four articles in this Forum provide detailed case studies of the occasional use of state power to regulate maritime predation in diverse waters and contexts. In these examples, states respectively negotiated with maritime communities in medieval England, sought a monopoly on violence in the South China Sea, collaborated with other states to police colonial Hong Kong, and dealt diplomatically with a local pirate hero to defend New Orleans. Across each article, the ‘state’ faced a particular problem of piracy, but could only occasionally exert power to manage it.

A Study of Case Studies: Some Reflections and Projections on the Narrative Structuring of Management Cases

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Cliff Oswick
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Attribution Of Responsibility ◽  
Solution Flow ◽  
Common Features ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
The Common ◽  
Causal Chains

This article explores the narrative structure of management cases. A selective sample of cases ( n = 5) which focus on the turnaround of a high profile corporation is examined. The analysis considers the notions of: thematic framing and ordering (i.e., univocality, causal chains and a ‘problem-to-solution’ flow); verisimilitude (i.e., coherence and plausibility); the use of poetic tropes (i.e., the attribution of responsibility, agency and providential significance). The common features and general characteristics revealed in both ‘conventional cases’ and ‘critical cases’ are identified and discussed. Finally, the scope for embracing and applying alternative approaches (e.g., plurivocal, fragmented and less problem-centred) is presented.

New kids on the block

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 25-27
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Team Members ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Major Competitor ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Picture this – you have recruited a new member for your team, we will call her Jane. Jane was the best candidate on paper and gave a stunning interview. She will fill the vacant role in your team and then some with her wide-ranging experience, insights from previous role at a major competitor and highly advanced skill set. She started last week and seems to have understood all the induction training so far, and even stayed late on the first few nights when she did not have to. She is booked onto some further high-profile training courses shortly, and seems to be really hitting the ground problem. There is only one problem: Jane is sitting by herself in the staff restaurant at lunch times and does not seem to be talking much with her fellow team members. But this is not going to affect her performance, right? Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

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