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

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

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

Online veröffentlicht: 04. Juni 2014

Seitenbereich: 133 - 147

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausfm-2014-0008

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

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