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ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLE

FIGURES

1. 's original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) / iy

2. A slumbering pod person in Phil Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the 1978 remake / 20

3. , Mitchum, and in the original Cape Fear (1962) / 41

4. Robert DeNiro in 's Cape Fear (1991), the remake / 50

5. Frank Vosper, Leslie Banks, Nova Pilbeam, and Peter Lorre in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) / 57

6. in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1955) / 65

7. and Errol Flynn in Michael Curtiz's The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) / 72

8. Kevin Costner and in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), a politically correct revamping of Robin Hood / 75

9. A scene from the end of the 1937 A Star Is Born, with , May Robson, Andy Devine, and Adolphe Menjou / 82

10. in the 1954 remake of A Star Is Born / 85

11. belts out a song in A Star Is Born (1976) / 87

12. Aljolson and May McAvoy in Alan Crosland's The Jazz Singer (1927) / 101

13. Danny Thomas and Peggy Lee in Michael Curtiz's remake of The Jazz Singer (1953) / 102

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14. Neil Diamond and Lucie Arnaz in 's re-remake of The Jazz Singer {1980) / 705

15. , with , faces in A Guy Named Joe (1943) / 116

16. In Always (1989), observes Holly Hunter in the arms of Brad Johnson / ny

17. Macaulay Culkin in Chris Columbus's Alone (1990) / 140

18. Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in Godard's Breathless (1959) / 151

19. and Valerie Kaprisky in Jim McBride's reverse-role remake of Breathless (1983) / 152

20. and Brigitta Pettersson in 's / 166

21. The Last House on the Left (1972), Wes Craven's remake of Bergman's The Virgin Spring (1959) / 168

22. , with , in The Godfather (1972) / 175

23. Davar Dujmovic and Ljubica Adzovic in Emir Kusturica's (1989), a makeover of 's The Godfather (1972) / 176

24. in 's Imitation of Life (1959), a remake of the 1934 version / 205

25. Ana Lizaran, Marisa Paredes, and in Pedro Almodovar's Spanish update of Imitation of Life (1959), High Heels (1991) / 207

26. Lovers in Su Friedrich's Damned If You Don't (1987), a transgressive retake on Powell and Pressburger's 1946 melodrama, Black Narcissus / 225

27. The nun in Su Friedrich's Damned If You Don't (1987) / 227

28. The shadow of Max Schreck in F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922) / 259

29. Herzog's Nosferatu, the Vampyre (1979), with Klaus Kinski and / 244

30. The "Last Supper" in Herzog's Nosferatu, the Vampyre (1979) / 247

31. Gary Oldman in Francis Ford Coppola's retelling of Bram Stoker's (1992) / 252

32. in 's Dracula (1979) / 253

33. Max Schreck in F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922) / 254

34. Klaus Kinski in 's Nosferatu, the Vampyre (1979) / 255 ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLE ix

35. Bela Lugosi in Tod Browning's Dracula (1931) / 256

36. in Terence Fischer's The Horror of Dracula (1956) / 257

37. The comic book transformation of Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula / 282

38. John Ford's Stagecoach (1939) / 304

39. The "Last Supper" scene in Robert Altaian's M*A*S*H (1970) / 314

40. The surgeons in the popular television series M*A *S*H / 3/5

TABLE

1. The Jazz Singer and Its Remakes / 99