The first full-length history of the remake in cinema, "Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguise" is also the first book to explore how and why these stories are told. 
Anat Zanger focuses on contemporary retellings of three particular tales— "Joan" "of Arc," "Carmen," and "Psycho"— to reveal what she calls the remake’ s “ rituals of disguise.” Joan of Arc, Zanger demonstrates, later appears as the tough, androgynous Ripley in the blockbuster "Alien" series and the God-ridden Bess in Lars Von Trier’ s "Breaking the Waves," Ultimately, these remake...