Drawing upon recent theories of genre and intertextuality, Film Remakes describes remaking as both an elastic concept and a complex situation, one enabled and limited by the interrelated roles and practices of industry, critics and audiences.
These findings are important because they extend application of social theory to autism, lending insight into the social construction of autism as a disability and, by extension, aiming for the transformation of people with autism.įilm Remakes is the first book to provide a comprehensive and systematic account of the phenomenon of cinematic remaking. Religion also featured more in the Indian films in relation to autism. Specifically, the Indian remakes depicted characters with autism in more romantic interactions, interactions with children, and with more occupational abilities than the original American films. Analysis revealed differences in how disability was constructed across the original films and their remakes, indicating the influence of culture on the construction of disability. Two American films about characters with autism were compared to their respective Indian Hindi-language remakes by means of a quantitative content analysis. This study is the first to approach the social theory of disability through film remakes, a technique that permits a novel comparative examination of the construction of autism in different countries.
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