Download or read book Remaking Josh written by Tami Veldura and published by Oldwolff Alternascents. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tidewater Short Story. Contemporary, Stand alone, HEA. Josh found his happily ever after with husband Rick and their malamute Anna, only to lose it again. Rick died in a car crash, leaving Josh with an unsupportive family and nowhere to turn. Months after the incident he still hasn't found a way to cope, but he's tired of the black pit of depression. He takes a late-season trip with Anna to their cabin on the edge of Tidewater, hoping to find a way to move on. He doesn't expect to rescue someone else. Eli's work for Fish and Game has brought him up to the mountains once again. He thrives here in the snow and the wild, but even he knows when it's time to find help. A dead truck battery, no sat-phone, and an incoming storm drive him toward the only cabin around. He collapses at Josh's door near frostbite. Josh takes him in, but the storm hits hard that night and in the close quarters Eli finds a man more in need than he's ever seen. Josh is torn between Rick's memory and the unexpected, powerful attraction he has for Eli. He's not ready for anything new, but he desperately wants the comfort and understanding Eli provides. Tidewater's winter storm just needs to snow the two damaged men in long enough for them to realize they can heal each other.
Download or read book The King s Fortune written by Tami Veldura and published by Story Prism Studios. This book was released on 2020-12-05 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norzin, Hunter of the Realm, favored of the King, was once banished from the kingdom he called home, but not before he saved the king's life and earned a reward. Now, thirty years later, the king is dead and his daughter rules with a bloody fist and Norzin has returned to claim the reward he was promised.
Download or read book Transnational Film Remakes written by Iain Robert Smith and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a film is remade in another national context? How do notions of translation, adaptation and localisation help us understand the cultural dynamics of these shifts, and in what ways does a transnational perspective offer us a deeper understanding of film remaking? Bringing together a range of international scholars, Transnational Film Remakes is the first edited collection to specifically focus on the phenomenon of cross-cultural remakes. Using a variety of case studies, from Hong Kong remakes of Japanese cinema to Bollywood remakes of Australian television, this book provides an analysis of cinematic remaking that moves beyond Hollywood to address the truly global nature of this phenomenon. Looking at iconic contemporary titles such as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Oldboy, as well as classics like La Bete Humaine and La Chienne, this book interrogates the fluid and dynamic ways in which texts are adapted and reworked across national borders to provide a distinctive new model for understanding these global cultural borrowings.
Download or read book Cycles Sequels Spin offs Remakes and Reboots written by Amanda Ann Klein and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With sequels, prequels, remakes, spin-offs, or copies of successful films or franchises dominating film and television production, it sometimes seems as if Hollywood is incapable of making an original film or TV show. These textual pluralities or multiplicities—while loved by fans who flock to them in droves—tend to be dismissed by critics and scholars as markers of the death of high culture. Cycles, Sequels, Spin-offs, Remakes, and Reboots takes the opposite view, surveying a wide range of international media multiplicities for the first time to elucidate their importance for audiences, industrial practices, and popular culture. The essays in this volume offer a broad picture of the ways in which cinema and television have used multiplicities to streamline the production process, and to capitalize on and exploit viewer interest in previously successful and/or sensational story properties. An impressive lineup of established and emerging scholars talk seriously about forms of multiplicity that are rarely discussed as such, including direct-to-DVD films made in Nigeria, cross-cultural Japanese horror remakes, YouTube fan-generated trailer mash-ups, and 1970s animal revenge films. They show how considering the particular bonds that tie texts to one another allows us to understand more about the audiences for these texts and why they crave a version of the same story (or character or subject) over and over again. These findings demonstrate that, far from being lowbrow art, multiplicities are actually doing important cultural work that is very worthy of serious study.
Download or read book Japanese Horror Films and their American Remakes written by Valerie Wee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ring (2002)—Hollywood’s remake of the Japanese cult success Ringu (1998)—marked the beginning of a significant trend in the late 1990s and early 2000s of American adaptations of Asian horror films. This book explores this complex process of adaptation, paying particular attention to the various transformations that occur when texts cross cultural boundaries. Through close readings of a range of Japanese horror films and their Hollywood remakes, this study addresses the social, cultural, aesthetic and generic features of each national cinema’s approach to and representation of horror, within the subgenre of the ghost story, tracing convergences and divergences in the films’ narrative trajectories, aesthetic style, thematic focus and ideological content. In comparing contemporary Japanese horror films with their American adaptations, this book advances existing studies of both the Japanese and American cinematic traditions, by: illustrating the ways in which each tradition responds to developments in its social, cultural and ideological milieu; and, examining Japanese horror films and their American remakes through a lens that highlights cross-cultural exchange and bilateral influence. The book will be of interest to scholars of film, media, and cultural studies.
Download or read book Hollywood Remaking written by Kathleen Loock and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the inception of cinema to today’s franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing film production. Hollywood Remaking challenges the categorical dismissal in film criticism of remakes, sequels, and franchises by probing what these formats really do when they revisit familiar stories. Kathleen Loock argues that movies from Hollywood’s large-scale system of remaking use serial repetition and variation to constantly negotiate past and present, explore stability and change, and actively shape how the film industry, cinema, and audiences imagine themselves. Far from a simple profit-making exercise, remaking is an inherently dynamic practice situated between the film industry’s economic logic and the cultural imagination. Although remaking developed as a business practice in the United States, this book shows that it also shapes cinematic aesthetics and cultural debates, fosters film-historical knowledge, and promotes feelings of generational belonging among audiences.
Download or read book Simulation written by Tami Veldura and published by Story Prism Studios. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heidi is in a simulation. She and thousands of hopefuls went to sleep on a ship destined for the stars, but something catastrophic has happened. The ship's AI, Oscar, has downloaded her into a computer, but none of her superiors survived the transition. It's up to Heidi to rescue the ship and its crew from inside the system.
Download or read book PixiePocolypse written by Tami Veldura and published by Story Prism Studios. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best friends Melissa and Anahi attend a fan conference when killer pixies swarm the building. It’s up to Pinkie Pool, Ripley from Aliens, and a Halo squad to save the day.
Download or read book Remaking Radicalism written by Dan Berger and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together documents from multiple radical movements in the recent United States from 1973 through 2001. These years are typically viewed as an era of neoliberalism, dominated by conservative retrenchment, the intensified programs of privatization and incarceration, dramatic cuts to social welfare, and the undermining of labor, antiracist, and feminist advances. Yet activists from the period proved tenacious in the face of upheaval, resourceful in creating new tactics, and dedicated to learning from one another. Persistent and resolute, activists did more than just keep radical legacies alive. They remade radicalism—bridging differences of identity and ideology often assumed to cleave movements, grappling with the eradication of liberal promises, and turning to movement cultures as the source of a just future. Remaking Radicalism is the first anthology of U.S. radicalisms that reveals the depth, diversity, and staying power of social movements after the close of the long 1960s. Editors Dan Berger and Emily Hobson track the history of popular struggles during a time that spans the presidencies of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush and bring to readers the political upheavals that shaped the end of the century and that continue to define the present.
Download or read book Personal Best written by Tami Veldura and published by Story Prism Studios. This book was released on 2022-02-05 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam is a high school cross country runner stuck living with his divorced dad when the pandemic shuts down traveling, hanging with friends, even school. He’d rather be with his mom, who at least calls him by the right name and pronouns. The day goes from gloomy to terrifying when Dad gets a letter in the mail that seems to turn him into a different person. An angry person. Scared, and more alone than ever, Sam knows he has to act… or Dad, and Sam, will disappear for good. Personal Best was first published in the Pikes Peak Writer’s Anthology Fresh Starts in 2021
Download or read book Chasing Dragons written by Tami Veldura and published by Tami Veldura. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gwen is a jumper, able to move spaceships through giant wyrmholes left in space. Her captain is obsessed with finding a space wyrm. But jumping is hard work and Gwen's captain pushes her to the brink.
Download or read book American Remakes of British Television written by Carlen Lavigne and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Norman Lear remade the BBC series Till Death Us Do Part into All in the Family, American remakes of British television shows have become part of the American cultural fabric. Indeed, some of the programs currently said to exemplify American tastes and attitudes, from reality programs like American Idol and What Not to Wear to the mock-documentary approach of The Office, are adaptations of successful British shows. Carlen Lavigne and Heather Marcovitch's American Remakes of British Television: Transformations and Mistranslations is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that focuses on questions raised when a foreign show is adapted for the American market. What does it mean to remake a television program? What does the process of 'Americanization' entail? What might the success or failure of a remade series tell us about the differences between American and British producers and audiences? This volume examines British-to-American television remakes from 1971 to the present. The American remakes in this volume do not share a common genre, format, or even level of critical or popular acclaim. What these programs do have in common, however, is the sense that something in the original has been significantly changed in order to make the program appealing or accessible to American audiences. The contributors display a multitude of perspectives in their essays. British-to-American television remakes as a whole are explained in terms of the market forces and international trade that make these productions financially desirable. Sanford and Son is examined in terms of race and class issues. Essays on Life on Mars and Doctor Who stress television's role in shaping collective cultural memories. An essay on Queer as Folk explores the romance genre and also talks about differences in national sexual politics. An examination of The Office discusses how the American remake actually endorses the bureaucracy that the British original satirizes; alternatively, another approach breaks down The Office's bumbling boss figures in terms of contemporary psychological theory. An essay on What Not to Wear discusses how a reality show about everyday fashion conceals the construction of an ideal national subject; a second essay explains the show in terms of each country's discourses surrounding femininity. The success of American Idol is explained by analyzing the role of amateur music in American culture. The issue of translation itself is interrogated by examining specific episodes of Cracker, and also by asking why a successful series in the U.K., Blackpool, was a dismal failure as an American remake. This collection provides a rich and multifaceted overview of approaches to international television studies.
Download or read book The Art of Magic written by Tami Veldura and published by Story Prism Studios. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deadly blight sweeps across the land, driving people and animal alike before it. Two sisters flee from the overtaking poison, ready to fight for their lives and each other. The Art of Magic is a short story about power, where it comes from, what we can do to change its course, and how the acts we perform every day can stop the unstoppable.
Download or read book The Call of the Grim written by Tami Veldura and published by Story Prism Studios. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nariah is in high school, plays tennis, is learning how to navigate friendships, and hunts zombies. In every graveyard, a large black dog, a Grim, is buried to protect the dead. But when the dead rise, the Grim rises with them to protect the living. And when the Grim rises, Nariah goes to work. If her mom says it's ok, that is.
Download or read book Closer Than Touch written by Tami Veldura and published by Story Prism Studios. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They call him the Black Widow. Diea is a Gemini soldier, a special ops marine trained to work more closely with one partner than any other. Through the nanotech in their veins, a Gemini pair can communicate over any distance, see and hear what the other experiences, and it's been said when one partner is killed, the other will fall dead on the spot. But the Black Widow has outlived two partners. And counting. Phade has just transferred from Taurus to Gemini, and he's not intimidated by Deia's reputation. Phade knows better than anyone that the image people see is just a mask for what has been broken underneath. Even the hardcore have to let their guard down when the nanotech shares every heartbeat.
Download or read book Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror Film Sequels Series and Remakes written by Kim R. Holston and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction, fantasy and horror movies have spawned more sequels and remakes than any other film genre. Following Volume I, which covered 400 films made 1931-1995, Volume II analyzes 334 releases from 1996 through 2016. The traditional cinematic monsters are represented--Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, a new Mummy. A new wave of popular series inspired by comics and video games, as well as The Lord of the Rings trilogy, could never have been credibly produced without the advances in special effects technology. Audiences follow the exploits of superheroes like Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man and Thor, and such heroines as the vampire Selene, zombie killer Alice, dystopian rebels Katniss Everdeen and Imperator Furiosa, and Soviet spy turned American agent Black Widow. The continuing depredations of Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers are described. Pre-1996 movies that have since been remade are included. Entries features cast and credits, detailed synopsis, critics' reviews, and original analysis.
Download or read book Sex and Sexuality in Modern Screen Remakes written by Lauren Rosewarne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex and Sexuality in Modern Screen Remakes examines how sexiness, sexuality and revisited sexual politics are used to modernize film and TV remakes. This exploration provides insight into the ever-evolving—and ever-contested—role of sex in society, and scrutinizes the politics and economics underpinning modern media reproduction. More nudity, kinky sex, and queer content are increasingly deployed in remakes to attract, and to titillate, a new generation of viewers. While sex in this book refers to increased erotic content, this discussion also incorporates an investigation of other uses of sex and gender to help a remake appear woke and abreast of the zeitgeist including feminist reimaginings and ‘girl power’ make-overs, updated gender roles, female cast-swaps, queer retellings, and repositioned gazes. Though increased sex is often considered a sign of modernity, gratuitous displays of female nudity can sometimes be interpreted as sexist and anachronistic, in turn highlighting that progressiveness around sexuality in contemporary media is not a linear story. Also examined therefore, are remakes that reduce the sexual content to appear cutting-edge and cognizant of the demands of today’s audiences.