Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture - Hardcoverby Kathleen Loock (Author) 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