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Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox explores the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze using the framework of Hollywood´s current obsession with remaking and rebooting classic and foreign films. Through an analysis of cinematic repetition and difference, the book approaches remakes from a range of philosophical perspectives.

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Remake Paradox PART I: THE PROBLEM OF CHOICE 1. Shot For Shot Remakes 2. Transnational Remaking PART II: THE PROBLEM OF DISTANCE 3. The Vicious Circles of Postmodern Representations 4. Remake Series and the ´Case´ of Film Noir PART III: THE PROBLEM OF THE EXCEPTION 5. The Other Side of Remakes 6. The Grandfather Paradox Conclusion: Encore Deleuze Bibliography Index

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"Daniel Varndell´s Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox is an innovative book that gets past the usual argument that the original film is the best version and the remake an ill-made copy. ... Varndell´s book is a mandatory text for those interested in remakes and Deleuzian film-philosophy. ... With Hollywood´s film industry turned into a constant remake production machine, Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox certainly provides a solid framework through which we can understand its implications." (María Victoria Gomez Vila, Film-Philosophy, Vol. 21 (1), 2017)

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Daniel Varndell is an independent scholar who teaches cultural and critical theory in English and Film Studies. This is his first book, and it marks the culmination of a long period of research on the subject of repetition and difference in Hollywood cinema. It will be complemented by a shorter, companion piece of work on David Lynch and Deleuze´s figure of the ´dark precursor´.

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