ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLE
FIGURES
1. Don Siegel'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. Martin Balsam, Robert Mitchum, and Gregory Peck in the original Cape Fear (1962) / 41
4. Robert DeNiro in Martin Scorsese'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. Doris Day in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1955) / 65
7. Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn in Michael Curtiz's The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) / 72
8. Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman 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 Janet Gaynor, May Robson, Andy Devine, and Adolphe Menjou / 82
10. Judy Garland in the 1954 remake of A Star Is Born / 85
11. Barbra Streisand 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 Richard Fleischer's re-remake of The Jazz Singer {1980) / 705
15. Spencer Tracy, with Ward Bond, faces Van Johnson in A Guy Named Joe (1943) / 116
16. In Always (1989), Richard Dreyfuss observes Holly Hunter in the arms of Brad Johnson / ny
17. Macaulay Culkin in Chris Columbus's Home Alone (1990) / 140
18. Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in Godard's Breathless (1959) / 151
19. Richard Gere and Valerie Kaprisky in Jim McBride's reverse-role remake of Breathless (1983) / 152
20. Max von Sydow and Brigitta Pettersson in Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring / 166
21. The Last House on the Left (1972), Wes Craven's remake of Bergman's The Virgin Spring (1959) / 168
22. Marlon Brando, with Al Pacino, in The Godfather (1972) / 175
23. Davar Dujmovic and Ljubica Adzovic in Emir Kusturica's Time of the Gypsies (1989), a makeover of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) / 176
24. Lana Turner in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life (1959), a remake of the 1934 version / 205
25. Ana Lizaran, Marisa Paredes, and Victoria Abril 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 Isabelle Adjani / 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 Dracula (1992) / 252
32. Frank Langella in John Badham's Dracula (1979) / 253
33. Max Schreck in F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922) / 254
34. Klaus Kinski in Werner Herzog's Nosferatu, the Vampyre (1979) / 255 ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLE ix
35. Bela Lugosi in Tod Browning's Dracula (1931) / 256
36. Christopher Lee 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