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  Reboots, Remakes, and Adaptations

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  Ian Peters University of North Georgia

  August 06, 2012

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  Reboots, Remakes, and Adaptations Total Recall remakes Reboots franchises Blockbuster reboot Adaptations Curator's Note The current film and television landscape is ripe with reboots and remakes, with countless more to be released in the near future. ...
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  What’s the Point of a Reboot?, or, Waiting for Godot in a Comic Book Shop

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  August 07, 2012

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  What’s the Point of a Reboot?, or, Waiting for Godot in a Comic Book Shop New 52 MarvelNow! comics Blockbuster reboot Curator's Note In September of last year, DC comics rebooted its entire line of comic books as 52 new #1 issues. Beginning in Octobe ...
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  Beginning Again: The Reboot Paradox

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  William Proctor Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland

  August 08, 2012

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  in order to streamline inconsistencies and convolution- and, of course, to spin a whirlpool of profit ...