[Commlist] New Book: Rebooting Inequality: Critical Takes on Film and Television Remakes

Rebooting Inequality: Critical Takes on Film and Television Remakes

Edited by Isabel Molina-Guzmán and Angharad N. Valdivia

Published by: NYU Press

Explores how nostalgia-driven reboots, revivals, and remakes perpetuate 
systemic biases around race, gender, and sexuality amid global nationalism

 From Ghostbusters to Will & Grace, One Day at a Time to Jurassic Park, 
the past decade has seen Hollywood reach a new peak in its obsession 
with reboots, remakes, and revivals. Spearheaded by media giants like 
Disney and Netflix, these projects promise progress—more diverse casts, 
“timely” social commentary, and redemptive nostalgia—yet they often 
reproduce the very inequalities they claim to address.

Rebooting Inequality brings together twelve concise, theoretically rich 
essays that interrogate how Hollywood’s recycling of intellectual 
property sustains entrenched systems of racial, gender, and sexual 
inequality. Across genres and platforms, contributors explore how the 
industry’s nostalgic return to familiar stories masks an ongoing 
reliance on white, patriarchal, and heteronormative frameworks of 
storytelling and production.

Blending critical race, feminist, and media studies, the collection 
analyzes dozens of recent film and television revivals, remakes, and 
reboots from Roseanne to Charlie’s Angels to ask what it means when 
entertainment markets strive for diversity while leaving the structures 
of inequality intact.

Accessible yet deeply analytical, Rebooting Inequality exposes how 
nostalgia has become both a marketing strategy and a political tool, 
revealing how the “new” Hollywood continues to reanimate the 
past—profitably, repeatedly, and unequally.


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