Mothers, Stepmoms and the Brave New Family. Intercultural Remake and Melodrama: an Analysis of the American Stepmom and its Bollywood Remake

• Authors: Natália Fábics
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The Bollywood remake of the American weepie Stepmom (Chris Columbus, 1998) is a fine and rather recent example of the intercultural remake phenomenon, a study topic that is gaining more and more attention. With the aim of suggesting conclusions generally applicable to intercultural remakes, starting from the genre, through characterization, film style and narrative, the present paper examines the remake process in the case of We Are Family (Siddharth Malhotra, 2010) and Stepmom

Keywords

EN

intercultural remake; melodrama; Bollywood; Chris Columbus: Stepmom (1998); Siddharth Malhotra: We Are Family (2010)

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 133-147

Dates

published

2013-08-01

online

2014-06-04

Contributors

author

Natália Fábics

• Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary)

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/ausfm-2014-0008