[ecrea] Remaking European Cinema: Symposium

Remaking European Cinema

A symposium on the theory and practice of the film remake in a European 
context

1 June 2018, Ghent University, Belgium

Registration via the conference website: https://remakingeurope.com/

Full programme:

08:30 - 09:00

Registration & coffee

09:00 - 09:10

Welcome address

09:10 - 09:55

Keynote: Thomas Leitch (University of Delaware): Hollywoodizing, 
Americanizing, Europeanizing

09:55 - 10:15

Coffee break

10:15 - 11:50

Panel: Remaking European cinema: current trends

Chair: Iain R. Smith (King’s College London)

Eduard Cuelenaere, Stijn Joye & Gertjan Willems (Ghent University): 
Performing the national: towards a model of localization strategies in 
the Dutch-Flemish film remake

Boris Noordenbos & Irina Souch (University of Amsterdam): Nostalgic 
mediations of the Soviet past in Nikolai Lebedev’s remake of The Crew (2016)

Sara F. Hall (University of Illinois at Chicago): Babylon Berlin: 
Remaking Weimar cinema in the era of global streaming

Núria Araüna (Rovira i Virgili University): “We are the replicants” or 
Androids Dream: Blade Runner’s dystopia as a quasidocumentary portrayal 
of contemporary Spain

Miguel Fernández Labayen & Ana Martín Morán (Universidad Carlos III de 
Madrid & Rey Juan Carlos University): Manufacturing proximity: the case 
of local-language comedies’ remakes

11:50 – 12:20

Industry talk: Meg Thomson (Globalgate Entertainment): The Business of 
Remakes

12:20 - 13:30

Lunch @ Faculty Council Room/Facultaire Raadzaal

13:30 - 14:15

Keynote: Lucy Mazdon (University of Southampton): Rethinking the Remake: 
Assimilation or Foreignization?

14:20 - 16:00

Panel: Rethinking the remake

Chair: Thomas Leitch (University of Delaware)

Jennifer Forrest (Texas State University) Bringing up babies: The 
politics of pronatalism in La Maternelle

Mario Slugan (Ghent University): R. W. Fassbinder’s Berlin 
Alexanderplatz as a remake

Anke Brouwers (University of Antwerp): (Not) skipping a beat: De battre 
mon coeur s’est arrêté (2005) as cinematic ekphrasis

Peter Verstraten (Universiteit Leiden): European art-house remake: 
Sehnsucht in tandem with Le Bonheur

Constantine Verevis (Monash University): A Bigger Splash: Refashioning 
the Remake

16:00 - 16:20

Coffee break

16:20 - 17:40

Panel: Remaking national cinema

Chair: Lucy Mazdon (University of Southampton)

Kamalika Sanyal (KU Leuven): The colour remakes of Swedish classics in 
the 1950s: Production, promotion and critical reception in the context 
of a new technology

Stefanie Mathilde Frank (Humboldt University of Berlin): Goodbye 
Goebbels? Remakes of Nazi Films in the 1950s

Kathleen Loock (Freie Universität Berlin): Remaking Winnetou, 
reconfiguring German fantasies of American Indians and the Wild West

Balázs Varga (ELTE University Budapest): One step forward two steps 
back: Millennial remakes and the transformation of Hungarian popular cinema

17:45 - 18:30

Keynote: Iain R. Smith (King’s College London): Beyond the Hollywood 
meme: A meme’s eye view of film remakes in a European context

18:30 - 18:45

Closing remarks

18:45 - 21:00

Reception with walking dinner @ Faculty Council Room/Facultaire Raadzaal

The film remake, whether as a practice or a concept, has been around 
since the very beginnings of cinema. While the earliest studies of the 
remake provided general overviews trying to sketch patterns and localize 
differing practices, this was followed by substantial attempts to define 
the remake as both a textual and cultural artefact and as a commercial 
business. Building on adaptation theories, scholars eventually 
pinpointed the intertextual properties that are inherent to the 
(relationship between) a source film and its remake(s). These evolutions 
in the research field spurred the idea of the remake as a kind of prism, 
which can be used to examine a variety of aesthetic, cultural, economic 
and social questions. For quite some time, most studies in the field 
were confined to the Hollywood practice of remaking non-Hollywood films, 
or, vice versa, non-Hollywood film industries remaking Hollywood films.

More recently, attempts are being made to look beyond Hollywood, 
inquiring into other nations or regions that, for example, remake their 
own films or the films of neighbouring countries. Notwithstanding these 
promising evolutions, there is still a lack of sustained research 
analysing the specific context(s) of European cinema. As a continent, 
Europe is known for its fragmentation and diversity due to the multitude 
of different languages and cultures existing next to and through each 
other within a relatively small geographical area. Although attempts to 
pinpoint the characteristics of European cinema are always questionable 
given that ‘Europe’ is as much a social, contingent and dynamic 
construction as other geopolitical entities, various cultural, economic 
and political dynamics grant the concept of European cinema analytical 
value. Accordingly, the purpose of the symposium is to bring together 
scholars with expertise in the currently vibrant field of remake studies 
for a discussion of the dynamics and particularities of the film remake 
in a European context.

This symposium is organized by Gertjan Willems, Eduard Cuelenaere and 
Stijn Joye, Centre for Cinema and Media Studies (CIMS) at Ghent 
University. The symposium is funded by the FWO research project ‘Lost in 
Translation? A multi-methodological research project on same-language 
film remakes between Flanders and The Netherlands’ and sponsored by the 
Film Studies section of ECREA and the Popular Communication division of 
NeFCA.


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