DEADRINGERS: The Remake in Theory and Practice -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Reviewing Remakes: An Introduction -- 2. Twice-Told Tales: Disavowal and the Rhetoric of the Remake -- 3. Economy and Aesthetics in American Remakes of French Films -- 4. The "Personal" Touch: The Original, the Remake, and the Dupe in Early Cinema -- 5. Sound Strategies: Lang's Rearticulation of Renoir -- 6. The Raven and the Nanny: The Remake as Crosscultural Encounter -- 7. Sadie Thompson Redux: Postwar Reintegration of the Wartime Wayward Woman -- 8. Hiring Practices: Simenon/Duvivier/Leconte -- 9. Twice Two: The Fly and Invasion ofthe Body Snatchers -- 10. Three Takes On Motherhood, Masculinity, and Marriage: Serreau's Trois Hommes et un couffin, Nimoy's Remake, and Ardolino's Sequel -- 11. Pretty Woman with a Gun: La Femme Nikita andthe Textual Politics of "The Remake" -- APPENDIX A: Remaking Le Voile bleu: An Interview with Norman Corwin, Screenwriter for The Blue Veil -- APPENDIX B: Norman Corwin Letter to Jerry Wald -- CONTRIBUTORS -- FILM TITLE INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- NAME AND SUBJECT INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.